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A Double Story is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for MacDonald, George (1824–1905).
Catalogue synopsis
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"A Double Story" by George MacDonald is a fairy tale novel first published in 1875. Two girls born on the same day—Princess Rosamond and shepherd's daughter Agnes—are ruined by their parents' poor parenting, growing into insufferable tyrants. A mysterious Wise Woman intervenes, stealing each girl away to teach them difficult lessons about their true selves through magical mirrors, trials, and discipline. But while one child learns humility and transformation, the other conceals her faults beneath obedience, leading to vastly different fates in this parable about wisdom and self-knowledge.
Book and edition facts
- Title: A Double Story
- Author credits: MacDonald, George (1824–1905)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
- Fairies -- Juvenile fiction
- Fairy tales
- Fantasy fiction
- Kindness -- Juvenile fiction
- Kings and rulers -- Juvenile fiction
- Parent and child -- Juvenile fiction
- Pride and vanity -- Juvenile fiction
- Princesses -- Juvenile fiction
- Selfishness -- Juvenile fiction
- Women shepherds -- Juvenile fiction
Gutenberg collections
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Novels
- Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
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