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This is an audiobook of The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, narrated by Andy Minter.
The Princess and the Goblin was published by George MacDonald through Strahan & Co. in 1872, with illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Its sequel, The Princess and Curdie, was published a year later.
Princess Irene is an 8 year whose father, the king, is absent, and whose mother is dead. Her only companion is Lottie, her nursemaid (at least until she and Lottie are saved from goblins by the young miner, Curdie). But goblins aren’t the only fantastical element of this novel. One rainy day, Irene comes across a beautiful lady that says she’s her great-great-grandmother. Not only must she figure out the story behind her great-great-grandmother, she has to avoid the sinister plan of the goblins to kidnap her and marry her to Harelip, their prince.
Title: The Princess and the Goblin
Author: George MacDonald
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This is an audiobook of The Light Princess by George MacDonald, narrated by Clive Catterall.
Inspired by Sleeping Beauty, The Light Princess by George MacDonald tells the tale of a princess that’s so light, she has to be worried about being whisked away by the wind. Her aunt, the evil Princess Makemnoit, curses her niece to have no gravity - the be light in all matters, to take nothing seriously. The only time she does find her gravity is when she’s swimming.
Meanwhile, a prince is looking for love. He finds a problem in every princess he comes across, until he happens upon her during a swim. He jumps into the water, thinking shes drowning, but they soon end up in the air with her telling him off. He falls in love with her and soon notices that she’s different in the water than she is on land.
Title: The Light Princess
Author: George MacDonald
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This is an audiobook of The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo, narrated by Mike Rosenlof.
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō was written in English for a Western audience. Okakura meditates on the importance of chadō, or teaism (also known as the Way of Tea) and its role in Japanese life. Chadō is one third of the three classical arts of Japanese refinement: kadō, or the art of flower arrangement, and kōdō, or the Way of Fragrance, are the other two.
In The Book of Tea, Okakura links the importance of teaism to the Japanese way of life. He contends that teaism has ingratiated itself into Japanese life – from its importance in historical events, to the impact of the philosophy that underlines its effect on Japanese art & architecture.
Title: The Book of Tea
Author: Okakura Kakuzō
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This is an audiobook of Fairy Prince and Other Stories by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, narrated by Nan Dodge.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, granddaughter of children’s author Jacob Abbott, was probably destined to become an author. Not only was her grandfather an author, but her mother, Clara, was an editor of a journal called Literary World. While she struggled a bit in the beginning, her writing was eventually accepted by Harper’s Magazine which ran some of her poetry. This led to further acclaim for her short stories (by her death in 1958, she had written 75 of them) and her novels (of which she wrote 14). Fairy Prince, and Other Stories is one such collection of her shorts.
Her papers are held by The University of New Hampshire Library. While she is mostly forgotten toady (as are a great many authors and poets), she was nonetheless a prolific writer.
Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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This is an audiobook of Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris, narrated by Phil Benson.
Fantasy has a long history of successive influence. The past heavily influences the present; one can easily connect Alice in Wonderland to The Wizard of Oz, or see the influence of George MacDonald’s goblins in The Princess and the Goblin on Tolkien’s goblins in The Hobbit - or the Anglo-Saxon past in general on The Lord of the Rings. What came before is taken and wrought anew.
One can draw a straight line from Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris to Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis. While the latter is more popular, one can see the influence of the former shine through. Both are about royal heirs who, through one set of machinations or another, are denied their birthright and must get it back.
But there is another, longer line to be drawn. Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair is, itself, derived from the medieval Lay of Havelok the Dane, written sometime towards the end of the 13th century. Havelock and Goldborow are both displaced in their youth but are later returned to the throne.
The past is always felt in the present. The lines might curve and bend, but they are always there, linking the present to the past - whether the inspiration comes from a work a hundred or a thousand years ago, it hardly matters.
Title: Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
Author: William Morris
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This is an audiobook of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, narrated by Karen Savage.
Off the bat, we encounter a young girl who loses both of her parents and is sent off to live with a relative in England. She brings her attitude with her; instead of fun-loving and caring, she’s haughty and more than a little brattish. She treats her maid like she treated the maids who served her every need in India, where she lived – not well, to say the least.
However, that slowly changes. When Mary Lennox, a sickly girl, arrives at Misselthwaite Manor, she learns of a secret garden. The garden was tended to by the deceased wife of the lord of the manor. After she died in the garden, he locked it up and buried the key – and since then, no one had set foot inside. That’s hardly enough to stop an adventurous young girl, however.
Mary soon makes it her mission to find this secret garden. Along the way, her attitude begins to change as she meets more people and befriends them. Some of them include her maid, Martha Sowerby; Martha’s mother, the hidden son of her uncle, Colin; and her favorite, Dickon.
Title: The Secret Garden
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
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This is an audiobook of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrated by Mark F. Smith.
In Treasure Island, we get an adventure and coming-of-age story that has captured many a heart in the nearly 140 years since it was first published. An old pirate, Billy Bones, goes to the Admiral Benbow Inn where he meets a young boy, Jim Hawkins, who he asks to be on the lookout for someone. This is young Hawkins introduction into the deadly world of piracy. He takes a map found in Bones’ chest to the respectable Dr. Livesey & squire John Trelawney. Mustering a crew, they set out to find the buried treasure of the legendary Captain Flint, but unbeknownst to them, some of the characters aboard their ship don’t plan on sharing generously. Most dangerous is the charismatic & charming Long John Silver, a peg-legged pirate with a parrot named – either out of respect or in mockery – Captain Flint.
Title: Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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This is an audiobook of Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald, narrated by Brad Powers.
Phantastes (full title: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women) is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald and published in 1858. It tells the story of Anodos and begins the day after his 21st birthday. After being shown a vision of Fairy Land by a fairy, he wakes the following day and finds himself in a forest of Fairy Land. There, he learns that there are good and evil creatures here. Two of the evil creatures he is advised to watch out for are the Ash Tree and the Alder Tree. Later on, he encounters another evil force: his shadow, which follows him throughout the rest of the story.
Title: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
Author: George MacDonald
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This is an audiobook of The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum, narrated by Phil Chenevert.
Given the full title of The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the sequel, as the name implies, focuses on the adventures of the Scarecrow & Tin Woodman after Dorothy & Toto head back to Kansas. Tip, a new character, is the ward of the Wicked Witch Mombi. After being threatened by her after playing a prank, Tip runs away with Jack Pumpkinhead, a Jack-o’-lantern he had carved that Mombi brought to life with her Powder of Life.
After a revolt forces him to flee, the Scarecrow escapes the Emerald City alongside Tip & Jack. They link with the Tin Woodman in his castle and prepare to go back to the Emerald City to put down the revolt. After some twists & turns, someone does end up on the throne, but it isn’t Scarecrow.
Title: The Marvelous Land of Oz
Author: L. Frank Baum
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