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The Water-Babies

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A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.A masterpiece of nostalgia, Charles Kingsley’s Victorian classic tells of Tom, a young chimney sweep who falls into a river and, becoming a water-baby, is guided back to humanity through a series of adventures, each with a moral lesson. Part of the fascination with the book today is the reflection of Victorian-era debates about poverty, working children and the eternal conflict between nature vs nurture.The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library.

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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.

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‘this is all a fairy tale…and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true’The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children’s stories ever written.In describing the underwater adventures of Tom, a chimney-sweeper’s boy who is transformed into a water-baby after he drowns, Charles Kingsley combined comic fantasy and moral fable to extraordinary effect. Tom’s encounters with friendly fish, curious lobsters, and characters such as Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby are both an exciting fairy tale and a crash course in evolutionary theory. They also reflect the quirky imagination of one of the great Victorian eccentrics. Tom’s adventures are constantly interrupted by Kingsley’s sideswipes at contemporary issues such as child labour and the British education system, and they offer a rich satiric take on the great scientific debates of the day.This edition reprints the original complete version of the story, and includes a lively introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and an appendix that reprints Kingsley’s first attempt to describe the mysterious creatures that live under the sea.

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