by Charles Kingsley · Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780575038790
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«The Water Babies» is Charles Kingsley's children's fantasy novel, published by Orion Children's Books in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Tom, a little chimney sweep, flees his cruel master and falls into a river, where fairies transform him into a water baby. In that underwater world he must live with other creatures and embark on a journey to correct his behaviour and discover what he needs to be happy. The narrative blends fantasy, social criticism and echoes of Darwin's theories.
Work serialised in 1862-1863 and published as a complete book in 1863; this 1986 edition includes illustrations by Harold Jones.
Suitable for young readers and for adults interested in classic children's literature and Victorian fantasy.
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).
