The Waterbabies, by Charles Kingsley is not only a fairy story, it is also a commentary on social conditions during the industrial revolution in England. Child labor was the norm, and many children were crippled for life due to labor practices. This is the second time I have read this book. I /5(). The Water-Babies [Kingsley, Charles] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Water-BabiesCited by: THE WATER BABIES by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, a Victorian era children's novel first published in book form in England in , achieved a level of popularity for decades in its day that spurred me as an adult to read it a hundred and fifty years later. Although it occupied a familiar place in British ch/5.
The Water-Babies () is one of the strangest and most powerful children's books ever published. Written by an Anglican clergyman with an insatiable love of science, the story combines an uplifting moral about redemption with a crash course in evolutionary theory, and has an imaginative exuberance equalled only by Lewis Carroll. Young Tom is. The Water-Babies. Charles Kingsley ( - ). The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, first published in its entirety in Though some of the author's opinions are very dated now, the journey of a little chimney-sweep water-baby through rivers and storms, under sea and over iceberg, is still a classic, wonderful children's adventure. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley. View current stock of this title. The Water Babies, subtitled by its author as A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, on closer examination has been seen as more than just a fairy tale by many. It can also be seen as a story rich in moral lessons and religious parallels.
Kingsley, Charles, Title: The Water-Babies Note: Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: # (Illustrated in B W and Color) # (Illustrated in Color) # (Plain HTML file) Language: English: LoC Class: PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres: Subject: Chimney sweeps -- Juvenile fiction Subject: Fairy tales -- England. The Water-Babies:Classic Edition(Annotated) - Kindle edition by Kingsley, Charles. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Water-Babies:Classic Edition(Annotated). The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in –63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favour in America in part due to its claimed prejudices against Irish.
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