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The Light Princess

by George MacDonald

Science fiction · Fantasy · Children's books

Open Library OL15428W

The Light Princess was published in as a story within the larger story Adela Cathcart. Drawing on inspiration from the story "Sleeping Beauty", it recounts a princess afflicted by a constant weightlessness, unable to get her feet on the ground, both literally and metaphorically, until she finds a love that brings her down to earth.

About the author

George MacDonald (1824–1905) is represented here by 65 public-domain titles, including A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul, A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare, and A Double Story. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here. More of this shelf for George MacDonald.

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