The Water Babies (Complete & Unabridged) [Wordsworth Classics]
Kingsley, Charles; Charles Kingsley
Language: English
Published by Wordsworth Classics/Wordsworth Editions Limited, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK, 1994
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- Title
- The Water Babies (Complete & Unabridged) [Wordsworth Classics]
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles; Charles Kingsley
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Classics/Wordsworth Editions Limited, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1853261483
- ISBN 13
- 9781853261480
- Illustrator
- Tony Collins (Cover Design)
- Edition
- Complete & Unabridged Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Academic, Scholarly, Research, Literary Studies, Literary Theory & Lit. Criticsm, Literature: Classic & Historic Literature
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. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls asleep, and becomes a Water Baby.
In his new life, he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures, including an engaging old lobster, other water babies, and at last reaches St Branden's Isle where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonebyeasyoudid and the motherly Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby. After a long and arduous quest to the Other-end-of-Nowhere young Tom achieves his heart's desire.
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"This is a long overdue, thoroughly detailed, and informative edition of Kingsley's classic Victorian children's tale. Though The Water-Babies has had great popular success since first publication, especially in the UK, it has frequently been read in abbreviated versions with many of Kingsley's often lengthy asides on politics, religion, education, and other pressing topics of the day omitted. This Broadview edition, following closely the first book text of 1863, includes all of Kingsley's fascinating diversions. The work is greatly enhanced by Professor Kelly's many scholarly appendices and numerous instructive annotations on the text. The result is an excellent edition that renders this intriguing classic much more amenable to the modern reader." - Brendan A. Rapple, Boston College
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