The Water-Babies (1916)
by Kingsley, Charles
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About This Item
Dodd, Mead & Company. Fine. 1916. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in pictorial gilt-stamped bright green cloth with a circular Wilcox Smith color illustration inset on the front cover. Gilt titles to spine. The always charming Wilcox Smith's color illustrations throughout. Book is in fine condition, crisp and clean with tight binding and sharp corners. Gift inscription elegantly penned to the front fly leaf. Large 4to. 362 pp. ; Illustrated By Jessie Willcox Smith; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
Synopsis
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature through the 1920s, but eventually fell out of favor in part due to its prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics, blacks, Americans, and the poor. In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable about a young chimney sweep, Tom, who falls into a river and becomes a 'water-baby,' guided by moral teachers through lessons and adventures, eventually earning the right to become human again and being united with an upper-class girl Ellie who had also become a 'water-baby.'
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- Title
- The Water-Babies (1916)
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Date Published
- 1916
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