by Charles Kingsley · NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853261480
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«The Water Babies» is Charles Kingsley's children's fantasy novel in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Tom, an orphan chimney sweep, flees after being mistaken for a thief, falls into a stream, and becomes a water baby. In his new underwater life he discovers fantastic creatures and embarks on a journey to the other end of nowhere. Kingsley combines fantasy with satire and comic digressions about Victorian England.
The novel was originally published in 1863 as «The Water-Babies»; it won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963. This edition from the Wordsworth Children's Classics collection is complete and unabridged.
For young and adult readers who enjoy classic fairy tales and Victorian social satire.
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).
