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The Water-Babies - a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby

by Kingsley, Charles

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London: Constable, 1915. Soine a little bumped and rubbed with text and dec. moderately faded, gutters slightly weak. Light foxing an dbrowning to endpapers and tissue guard. Pages and boards bright and clean. Appears to have been inexpertly reattached at gutters which is causing pages r-fep to stick to pd.. 1st. Cloth. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Heath Robinson, W.. 8vo.

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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
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Bookseller's Inventory #
38722
Title
The Water-Babies - a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby
Author
Kingsley, Charles
Illustrator
Heath Robinson, W.
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good Plus
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
1st
Publisher
Constable
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1915
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Fiction;

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