The Water Babies
by Charles Kingsley
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Wilmette, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
"The Water Babies"
by Charles Kingsley
c: 1900
Antique Hardcover Book
6 3/4" x 5 1/2"
191 Pages
The hardcover book is in fair to good minus condition. The book has many black and white illustrations and a few color illustrations through out. There are a couple of small edge tears, and a few pages with light stains. All pages are toned.
The boards are in fair to good minus condition with edge wear, a stains and overall wear. The binding is tight and square.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Dara's Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227
- Title
- The Water Babies
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- Illustrator
- Linley Sambourne
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- DeWolfe, Fiske & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1900
- Pages
- 191
- Size
- 6 3/4" x 5 1/2"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;