THE WATER BABIES
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++-Near FINE/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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Mansonville, Quebec, Canada
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- jakoll (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 233
- Title
- THE WATER BABIES
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Illustrator
- Jessie Willcox Smith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++-Near FINE
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- 1st Edition-1st Printing
- Publisher
- Crown Publisher's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Fiction-juvenile-illustrated-classic
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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