The Water-Babies Tapa blanda - 1995
de Charles Kingsley; Brian Alderson (Editor)
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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.'
Descripción de contraportada
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 this fantasy Kingsley grafts a series of digressions and comic asides, through which he comments on a range of contemporary issues. Kingsley ostensibly wrote The Water-Babies for his infant son, but its erratic flights of fancy are liable to take it beyond the immediate comprehension of adults and children alike. Often seen as an attack on the exploitation of child labour, it is rather a heterogeneous commentary on Kingsley's life and times. He writes with vibrant and humorous symbolism, fierce satire, and uninhibited imagination. This is the first edition to explore fully Kingsley's text, its variants, and its iconography, and to annotate the many references which enrich the story.
Identificación de primeras ediciones
First edition (London Macmillan and Company 1863) is usually without the L'Envoi leaf as is almost always encountered as the author had it removed from all but the first 200 or so copies. Illustrations in this edition include two full page plates by J. Noel Paton and with a number of small illustrations used throughout as opening initials.
Detalles
- Título The Water-Babies
- Autor Charles Kingsley; Brian Alderson (Editor)
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 270
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
- Fecha de publicación 1995-03
- ISBN 9780192822383 / 0192822381
- Peso 0.26 libras (0.12 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.33 x 4.61 x 0.49 pulgadas (18.62 x 11.71 x 1.24 cm)
- Época de 09 a 12 años
- Cursos 4 - 7
- Nivel de lectura 1070
- Library of Congress subjects Fairy tales, Fantasy
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 94011775
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.8
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