Goblin Market & Other Poems
$25.11
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2023
Summary
With a preface by Elizabeth Macneal and original illustrations by Laurence Housman.
Two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, are enticed by the smells, sounds and sights of the goblin market, tempted by the ripe figs, plump cherries and fragrant berries. Whilst Lizzie resists, Laura is slowly destroyed by her insatiable longing for the goblin’s forbidden fruit.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529065381 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529065380 |
| Author: | Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Macneal, Laurence Housman |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 138g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 101mm x 160mm |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
Critics Review
A wonderful fairytale … Rossetti allows herself the full freedom of her poetic gifts: her visual sense, her musicality, her skill in both narrative and lyric modes.
A wonderful fairytale … Rossetti allows herself the full freedom of her poetic gifts: her visual sense, her musicality, her skill in both narrative and lyric modes. – Carol Rumens * Guardian *
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 in London. Rossetti and her siblings, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, were educated by their mother and each grew up to excel in their creative endeavors. Their father, a political exile from Italy, fell ill when Rossetti was a teenager and the family suffered financial difficulty. Rossetti was devoted to religion from a young age and it was a major influence on her writing. She published various poems in literary magazines but it was Goblin Market, published in 1862 to great acclaim, that foregrounded her position as a prominent female poet. She became ill towards the end of her life, first from Graves’ disease and then from breast cancer, but she continued to write until she died in 1894.
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