An edition of The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby
(1863)
The water-babies
a fairy tale for a land-baby
by Charles Kingsley and Charles Kingsley
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A Victorian tale in which Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, is stolen by fairies and turned into a water-baby.
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Chimney sweeps, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English, Fiction, Fairy tales, Children's stories, Children's fiction, Fairies, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Fantasy, Painting, Private collections, Royal houses, Art collections, Kings and rulers, Juvenile fiction, Fairies, Marine animals, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Contes de féesPlaces
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Water-Babies: A Fairy-Tale for a Land-Baby (Children's Illustrated Classics)
January 1983, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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0460050370 9780460050371
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Some illustrations are signed: Sambourne and Swain SC.
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The story follows Tom in his land-life as a climbing boy for a chimney-sweep and in his after-life as a water-baby, where he gains redemption from selfishness as well as from drudgery. On to his fantasy Kingsley grafts a series of digressions and comic asides, through which he comments on a range of contemporary issues.
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| December 4, 2023 | Edited by AgentSapphire | undo merge authors |
| November 5, 2023 | Edited by bitnapper | merge authors |
| January 22, 2023 | Edited by bitnapper | Merge works (MRID: 43915) |
| December 29, 2022 | Created by MARC Bot | Imported from marc_columbia MARC record. |