Historias Maravillosas #19 En un majestuoso castillo sobre una montaña habita Irene, la princesa huérfana, que espera cada día el regreso de su padre de un país lejano. Bajo la montaña, los mineros excavan sus galerías para sacar a la luz las riquezas profundas de la tierra. Pero el subsuelo también está habitado por seres inquietantes que odian la luz del sol y desprecian a la raza humana: son los trasgos, astutos y pérfidos, de cabeza pétrea, escasa estatura y pie vulnerable. En su tortuosa asamblea traman una gran injusticia: destruir a los mineros y raptar a Irene para entregarla en matrimonio al repulsivo Harelip, su príncipe. Ni siquiera los esfuerzos de Curdie, el audaz y soñador minero, podrían impedir que se cumplieran sus tenebrosos planes, si no fuera porque desde el torreón del castillo desciende sobre Irene una misteriosa protección... Maravillosamente traducido por Carmen Martín Gaite, La princesa y los trasgos propone una lectura que tendrá la recompensa de la aventura, el suspense, el humor y el misterio: en definitiva, un clásico... y no sólo para niños.
Author
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was educated at Aberdeen University and after a short and stormy career as a minister at Arundel, where his unorthodox views led to his dismissal, he turned to fiction as a means of earning a living. He wrote over 50 books. Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, MacDonald inspired many authors, such as G.K. Chesterton, W. H. Auden, J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence." Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling." Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald. For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_M...
