by Charles Kingsley · Penguin Classics · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780140621464
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«The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby» is Charles Kingsley's fairy tale in a Penguin Classics paperback edition (336 pages, in English).
Tom, a mistreated young chimney sweep, bathes in a stream to clean himself and the fairies turn him into a water-baby. In the underwater world he discovers fantastic creatures that teach him to distinguish good from evil. The story blends Victorian fantasy, social criticism, and reflections on nature.
Work originally published in 1863; this edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
Recommended for readers aged 9 to 12 and for those who enjoy classics of Victorian 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).
