Davy and the Goblin
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How the Goblin came
9:57 -
The Beginning of the Believing Voyage
16:53 -
In the Sugar-Plum Garden
14:56 -
The Butterscotchmen
7:42 -
Jack and the Bean-stalk's Farm
14:17 -
The Giant Badorful
8:56 -
The Moving Forest
13:01 -
Sindbad the Sailor's House
19:55 -
Lay-overs for Meddlers
3:57 -
Ribsy
17:17 -
Robinson Crusoe's Island
16:05 -
A Whale in a Waistcoat
10:00 -
The Talking Waves and the Old Sea-dog
11:40 -
The End of the Believing Voyage
27:45
Davy and the Goblin (1885) is a public domain work.
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Snow keeps eight-year-old Davy indoors at his grandmother's house on Christmas Eve. After reading about Alice in Wonderland, he watches the fire and thinks about dinner, until a tiny red-clad visitor begins eating the hot coals. The Goblin has come to challenge Davy's disbelief in fairy-tale creatures, and a household clock soon becomes an unlikely boat, furnished with sponge-cake cushions.
Charles Edward Carryl's children's fantasy turns familiar stories and everyday objects into material for comic surprises. Davy's practical questions meet a companion who can disappear, change size to fit his clothes, and treat impossible events as ordinary conveniences. At Sindbad's house, even a beard and a turban acquire absurd uses. The chapter titles promise further encounters with Jack and the Beanstalk, Robinson Crusoe, and a waistcoated whale. Readers interested in playful dialogue and nonsense fiction will find a child's doubts tested by a world that refuses to follow sensible rules.
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- Charles Edward Carryl
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