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Book Information: Light Princess, the

Light Princess, the (1864) [Short Story]
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The princess at her christening is cursed by a wicked witch with lightness. She floats blissfully about the castle all day long and, as one can imagine, gets into all sorts of adventures. Gravity, weight, sorrow, suffering--all of this the princess misses, but with all of these she misses love, for what is love without weight, without falling?

Appears in:
The Fantastic Imagination
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
Visions and Imaginings
The Complete Fairy Tales
Published as a single volume with illustrations by Maurice Sandak.

Original title: The Light Princess
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fairy Tales & Folklore→ Original Creations

This work is a subwork of the following works :
Fantastic Imagination, the (1977) [Anthology]
Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , J. R. R. Tolkien , Lloyd Alexander , C. S. Lewis , Lord Dunsany , Peter S. Beagle , John Buchan , James Branch Cabell , George MacDonald , Frank R. Stockton , Sylvia Townsend Warner , H. E. Bates , Ludwig Tieck , Alexander Grin , Mark Van Doren
Visions & Imaginings: Classic Fantasy Fiction (1992) [Anthology]
Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Selma Lagerlöf , Isaac Bashevis Singer , Lloyd Alexander , Lord Dunsany , Peter S. Beagle , T.H. White , John Buchan , Joan Aiken , George MacDonald , Frank R. Stockton , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Kenneth Morris , Evangeline Walton , Félix Martí-Ibáñez , Eric Linklater , Vera Chapman
Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, the (1993) [Anthology]
Authors: L. Frank Baum , Ursula K. Le Guin , Charles Dickens , Philip K. Dick , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Alison Lurie , Edith Nesbit , H. G. Wells , Oscar Wilde , Isaac Bashevis Singer , Bernard Malamud , Tanith Lee , Donald Barthelme , Lord Dunsany , Louise Erdrich , Kenneth Grahame , Robert Louis Stevenson , Howard Pyle , Jane Yolen , T.H. White , John Collier , Angela Carter , James Thurber , Joan Aiken , Catherine Sinclair , George MacDonald , Laurence Housman , Frank R. Stockton , Jay Williams , Walter de la Mare , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Mary de Morgan , Lucy Lane Clifford , John Ruskin , Carl Sandburg , Frances Browne , Juliana Horatia Ewing , Richard Hughes , Naomi Mitchison , Jeanne Desy , Richard Kennedy

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