Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti, Ellen Raskin • BookLikes

Goblin Market

by: Ellen Raskin (author) Christina Rossetti (author)

Experience the temptation, pleasure, punishment, and redemption of Christina Rossetti's brilliant poetic masterpiece in this classic keepsake edition, gorgeously illustrated with Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Christina's brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Published in 1862, this phantasmagoric tale... show more

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Format: Hardcover

Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Co, Inc.

Pages no: 32

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Classics, Literature, European Literature, British Literature, Fairy Tales, 19th Century, Poetry, Horror, Gothic, Fiction

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Url Phantomhive rated it

6 years ago

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As I'm slowly making my way through Penguin Little Black Classics, I come across authors that are completely new to me, like Christina Rossetti. In school we skipped the Victorian literary area altogether because our teacher didn't like Dickens. (So straight from the Romantics to the First World War...

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Book themes for Winter Solstice and Yaldā Night: Read a book of poetry. Book themes for Yuletide: Read a book set in the midst of a snowy or icy winter. Holiday Book Joker as Bonus Joker: A book set on Winter Solstice (or Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere) Winter Solstice and Yald...

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altheaann rated it

11 years ago

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Another classic that I hadn't read for many, many years. While generally I appreciate authors who are loath to have their work read as allegory, this is too clear to be denied. The message I get out of this? "While men may be very tempting, it's generally safer to have sex with other women before ma...

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Projections of a Bibliophiles Mind rated it

11 years ago

http://Oithelas.booklikes.com Projections of a Bibliophiles Mind 3.5

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Beautifully written poem that deals with the subject of purity and temptation in the Victorian era. In my opinion this poem is a slight parallel of Eve and her fall from grace when she was tempted by the snake. Purity was an important virtue during the 1800s, so the fruit (instead of representing kn...

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