The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2008
by Kingsley, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
A young chimney sweep enters a magical waterworld where he meets creatures that teach him the difference between right and wrong.
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Details
- Title The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (Penguin Classics)
- Author Kingsley, Charles
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York
- Date 2008-04-29
- Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR002668271
- ISBN 9780143105091 / 0143105094
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Fairy tales, Chimney sweeps
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008008928
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
About this book
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.'
Summary
Instantly popular upon its initial publication in 1863, The Water Babies is at once a bewitching childhood fantasy and a skillfully woven moral allegory. Tom, a young chimney sweep, escapes his horrendous job and his cruel boss, Grimes, when fairies plunge him into a fantastical world under the sea. As he meets and befriends his fellow water babies, as well as all sorts of sea creatures, he begins to learn some valuable lessons. Much in demand by scholars, this authoritative new edition?featuring the Victorian illustrations from early editions?will charm children and adults alike.
