by Charles Kingsley · Puffin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140367362
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«The Water Babies» is Charles Kingsley's children's fantasy novel, published by Puffin Classics in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Little Tom, an ill-treated chimney sweep covered in soot, bathes in a stream and the fairies turn him into a water baby. Immersed in a fantastic world, he travels through underwater landscapes, faces astonishing creatures and has adventures that teach him important lessons.
This Puffin Classics edition was published in 1995 and is an abridged version of the work originally published in 1863.
Aimed at readers aged 9 to 11, with an interest in fantasy tales and classics of children's literature.
Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. A broad church priest of the Church of England, he is particularly associated with Christian socialism, Anti-Catholicism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. He is known for his novels Yeast (1848), Alton Locke (1850), Hypatia (1853), Westward Ho! (1855), The Water-Babies (1863), and Hereward the Wake (1866).
