by Charles Kingsley · Geddes & Grosset · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781842054109
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«The Water Babies» is a fairy tale by Charles Kingsley, published by Geddes & Grosset in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Tom, a young chimney sweep, transforms into a water baby after a series of magical events and embarks on a journey of redemption and personal discovery beneath the sea. In that magical underwater world he learns lessons about kindness and personal growth. A children's classic combining fantasy and moral.
2004 edition. The full title, as it appears in catalogues, is The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.
Aimed at young readers and lovers of classic literature, particularly children's tales with a moral.
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).
