Goblin - Early Fiction

Early Fiction

  • The Goblins, a comedy play by Sir John Suckling (1638 England; the title alludes to thieves rather than actual goblins)
  • The Pilgrim's Progress, a Christian allegory by John Bunyan (1678 England), includes the words "Men: ...we also saw there the hobgoblins, satyrs, and dragons of the pit;"
  • Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti (1859 England)
  • The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (1872)
  • Davy and the Goblin by Charles E. Carryl (1884)
  • The 19th century Irish song "Rocky Road to Dublin" includes the words "I cut a stout blackthorn, to banish ghosts and goblins".
  • Little Orphant Annie, a poem by James Whitcomb Riley, includes the words "An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you ef you don't watch out!" (1885)

Read more about this topic:  Goblin

Other articles related to "early fiction":

Ayn Rand - Life - Early Fiction
... Rand's first novel, the semi-autobiographical We the Living, was published in 1936 ... Set in Soviet Russia, it focused on the struggle between the individual and the state ...

Famous quotes containing the words fiction and/or early:

    “Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
    —Coleman Dowell (1925–1985)

    “Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)