The Light Princess

1864

MacDonald's 1864 fairy tale. A king forgets to invite his sister to the christening, and she takes away the baby's gravity, so the princess floats to the ceiling, blows about in the wind and can laugh at anything. She is only herself in the lake, and when the lake begins to drain a prince finds the hole and the price of stopping it. Fifteen short chapters.

Chapter 1 What! No Children?
Chapter 2 Won't I, Just?
Chapter 3 She Can't Be Ours
Chapter 4 Where Is She?
Chapter 5 What Is to Be Done?
Chapter 6 She Laughs Too Much
Chapter 7 Try Metaphysics
Chapter 8 Try a Drop of Water
Chapter 9 Put Me in Again
Chapter 10 Look at the Moon
Chapter 11 Hiss!
Chapter 12 Where Is the Prince?
Chapter 13 Here I Am
Chapter 14 This Is Very Kind of You
Chapter 15 Look at the Rain!