This lovely gift edition of Christina Rossetti's most famous poem will enchant readers of all ages. For children, the story offers a captivating adventure into a land of fantasy. For adults, it's a lyric and sensual allegory of temptation, sacrifice, and salvation. Arthur Rackham, a peerless illustr
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β Scribed by Diane Zahler
- Book ID
- 111932481
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780823452927
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
One sister must save the other from a goblin prince in this rich, spooky, and delightfully dark fantasy!
"TERRIFICALLY TIMELESS. . . SPLENDID." --Shelf Awareness
Lizzie and Minka are sisters, but they're nothing alike: Minka is outgoing and cheerful, while Lizzie is shy and sensitive. Nothing much ever happens in their sleepy village--there are fields to tend, clothes to mend, and weekly trips to the market, predictable as the turning of the seasons. Lizzie likes it that way. It's safe. It's comfortable. She hopes nothing will ever change.
But one day, Minka meets a boy.
A boy who gives her a plum to eat.
He is charming. He is handsome. He tells her that she's special. He tells her no one understands her like he does--not her parents, not her friends, not even Lizzie. He tells her she should come away with him, into the darkness, into the forest. . . .
Minka has been bewitched and ensnared by a...
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**One sister must save the other from a goblin prince in this rich, spooky, and delightfully dark fantasy!** **"TERRIFICALLY TIMELESS. . . SPLENDID."βShelf Awareness** Lizzie and Minka are sisters, but theyβre nothing alike: Minka is outgoing and cheerful, while Lizzie is shy and sensitive. Noth
An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830β1894) wrote some of the most beautiful and voluptuous poetry in the English language. Like Emily Dickinson, she lived in self-imposed isolation, writing of God and lost love with a sensuality and passion that se