An edition of The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby
(1863)
The water-babies
a fairy tale for land-baby
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by Charles Kingsley and Charles Kingsley
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The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney-sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water-baby.
Publish Date
1894
Publisher
Macmillan & Co.
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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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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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| August 23, 2018 | Edited by Lisa | Added new cover |
| December 20, 2011 | Edited by ImportBot | import new book |
| March 30, 2011 | Edited by George | merge authors |
| April 14, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the edition. |
| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Internet Archive item record. |