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Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

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Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

by Charles Kingsley

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London.: G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1111. 'Bell's Continuous Readers series. 'Adapted for use in schools'. . Hard. Fair. 12mo.. With illustrations by Eva Roos.. Fair. Well used but a good, solid copy.

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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Bookseller
Ryan OHorne Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
028924
Title
Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
Author
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator
With illustrations by Eva Roos.
Format/Binding
Hard
Book Condition
Used - Fair
Quantity Available
1
Edition
'Bell's Continuous Readers series. 'Adapted for use
Publisher
G. Bell & Sons Ltd.
Place of Publication
London.
Size
12mo.

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Fair
is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
G
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12mo
A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...

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