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The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine , it was first published in its entirety in 1863.
Charles Kingsley. Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief.
Oct 9, 2013 · Charles Kingsley was an eccentric who once made friends with a wasp which he saved from drowning. He gave a Devon village its name. He gave us a number of words and phrases still in common use. His most famous work, The Water-Babies, is an odd book which is at once a children's classic, a moral….
Aug 1, 1997 · The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
Mar 2, 2012 · 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
May 23, 2008 · The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Children's Literature. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
May 23, 2008 · Project Gutenberg's The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley and Warwick Goble This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Apr 29, 2008 · The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (Penguin Classics) Paperback – April 29, 2008. by Charles Kingsley (Author), Richard D. Beards (Editor, Introduction) 4.2 126 ratings. See all formats and editions. The beloved Victorian children's tale now available in its original unabridged edition.
- Charles Kingsley
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.
In 1863 there appeared The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley. In this fascinating, yet repulsive, “Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby,” an unctuous cleric and a fanciful poet, uneasily inhabiting one body, collaborated.
