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Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia: Being the Adventures of Prince Prigio's Son
Andrew Lang · 1893
A crystal globe turns a royal study into a window on distant trouble. Prince Ricardo is drawn toward every new call to adventure, while King Prigio wonders what a prince ought to learn before he sets out.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 46 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The Characters of Pantouflia — The Royal Household
The Characters of the Court and Its Allies — Plate II
The Characters of Jaunia and the Cavern — Plate III
Pantouflia — Kingdom and Royal Route
The Royal Drawing-Room — Court Gathering
A Royal Household Under Strain
A King's View in the Crystal Globe
The King's Fairy Treasures
This edition
- Title
- Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia: Being the Adventures of Prince Prigio's Son
- Author
- Andrew Lang (1844–1912)
- First published
- 1893
- Illustrated plates
- 75 original artworks · 46 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 10 · about 23,667 words
- Reading time
- 1 h 35 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- October 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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