At work with the rest of the miners, Curdie overhears the goblins talking, and their conversation reveals to Curdie the secret weakness of goblin anatomy: they have very soft, vulnerable feet. After dark they are chased by goblins and rescued by a young miner, Curdie, whom Irene befriends. The next day, Princess Irene persuades her nursemaid to take her outside. One rainy day, the princess explores the castle and discovers a beautiful, mysterious lady, who identifies herself as Irene's namesake and great-great-grandmother.
Unknown to her, the nearby mines are inhabited by a race of goblins, long banished from the kingdom and now anxious to take revenge on their human neighbours.
Her father, the king, is normally absent, and her mother is dead. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a castle in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid, Lootie, for company. And he is the author of The Wizard Next Door, illustrated by Steven Kellogg. He is also the editor of the Books of Wonder Classics, a series of deluxe facsimiles and newly illustrated editions of timeless tales. Peter Glassman is the owner of Books of Wonder, the New York City bookstore and publisher specializing in new and old imaginative books for children. A student at Howard Pyle's Brandywine School of American Illustration, her hundreds of magazine illustrations and more than forty illustrated books include Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (1905), Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies (1916), and George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind (1919) and The Princess and the Goblin (1920). Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) was one of the most popular and successful American illustrators of the early twentieth century. Auden called him "one of the most remarkable writers of the nineteenth century." Born in Aberdeenshire, he was briefly a clergyman, then a professor of English literature at Bedford and King's College in London. George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a popular Scottish lecturer and writer of novels, poetry, and fairy tales.
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