The Water Babies: a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby
by Kingsley, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company Publishers no date pre 1905. Blue cloth with white/lighter blue lettering/decoration, 295 pages, illustrated with numerous black-and-white drawings. Bleiler [1978 Checklist, page 114]. Spine lettering faded, page edges spot stained/foxed with some light soiling to the top edge, some foxing/spot staining to the rear endpaper.bx46
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
- biblioboy (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5843
- Title
- The Water Babies: a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles
- Illustrator
- Mary E. Phillips
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Rand McNally & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1905
- Pages
- 295
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, fairy tales adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology;
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