![]() ![]() These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. The story starts off as introducing the two girls, Laura and Lizzie that are also sisters. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. In the poem Goblin Market, one thing Christina Rossetti focuses on is feminism. Only Lizzie can rescue Laura from her deathbed in this daring meditation on sisterhood and sexuality.Complete and unabridged, this edition features a preface by Elizabeth Macneal. Haunted by stories of girls who lost their lives to the goblins, Laura's health declines as she longs to taste the fruit again but can no longer hear the familiar market cries. A narrative poem (a rarity for Rossetti), it tells the story of two sisters, Laura. Lizzie resists temptation, but Laura cannot help but stop to taste the fruits from the goblin men. Goblin Market, Rossetti’s most anthologized and discussed poem, is also, at 567 lines, one of her longest. Originally published in 1862, Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market is a spellbinding fairytale of female desire brought to life in a lavishly descriptive narrative poem.Two young girls, Laura and Lizzie, are enticed by the smells, sounds and sights of the goblin market. In 1862 Christina published Goblin Market and Other Poems and in 1866 The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems, both with frontispiece and decorations by her brother Dante Gabriel. ![]()
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