Goblin Market and Other Poems

Christina Rossetti

258 pages
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Two sisters, a band of goblin merchants, and fruit that no one should taste. Rossetti's 1862 masterpiece is a dark Victorian fairy tale in verse, collected here with The Prince's Progress and her other poems.

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