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From the backpage of the Wordsworth Classics edition: :George MacDonald's second novel for children is widely regarded as both his best children's story and one of the finest fantasy tales ever written. The Princess Irene lives in a Castle on a Mountain with her nurse Lootie, while in Cave s beneath live a race of ugly Goblin s with heads as hard as stone. The lines are drawn for a fantastic confrontation between the Princess, her great-great-grandmother and her intrepid friend Curdie on the one side, and the Gnome -like goblins on the other. It is a thrilling battle of with which must prove fatal... for someone. ANIMATED FILM ADAPTATION In 1993 , the novel was made into an Animated Motion Picture in Hungarian , English and Japanese Co-production . It is 79 minutes in length. The Screenplay was written by Robin Lyons and production was directed by József Gémes . The film was created at PannóniaFilm in Budapest , Hungary , NHK in Japan , and S4C and Siriol Productions in Great Britain . The story was once again adapted in animated form by Jay Ward as part of a segment called Fractured Fairytales. The story was about a race of innocent goblins who were forced to live underground. The goblin king fell in love with a princess, but a princess saves her by reciting poetry because goblins hate it. EXTERNAL LINKS
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