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The Princess and Curdie

The Princess and Curdie

MacDonald, George
George MacDonald
1stworld Library

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ISBN10: 1421847310
ISBN13: 9781421847313
Publisher: 1St World Lib Inc
Published: Jun 15 2007
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Curdie was the son of Peter the miner. He lived with his father and mother in a cottage built on a mountain, and he worked with his father inside the mountain. A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowing so much of their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yet more afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to see how beautiful they are as well as awful, and they hated them - and what people hate they must fear. Now that we have learned to look at them with admiration, perhaps we do not feel quite awe enough of them. To me they are beautiful terrors. I will try to tell you what they are. They are portions of the heart of the earth that have escaped from the dungeon down below, and rushed up and out. For the heart of the earth is a great wallowing mass, not of blood, as in the hearts of men and animals, but of glowing hot, melted metals and stones. And as our hearts keep us alive, so that great lump of heat keeps the earth alive: it is a huge power of buried sunlight - that is what it is.

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