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The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Tapa dura - 2017

Name: The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby (Calla Editions)
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Author: Kingsley, Charles; Smith, Jessie Willcox [Illustrator]
ISBN: 9781606601136

de Charles Kingsley; Jessie Willcox Smith (Illustrator)

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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, 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.'

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.

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Título The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
Autor Charles Kingsley; Jessie Willcox Smith (Illustrator)
Encuadernación Tapa dura
Edición Hardback
Páginas 272
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Calla Editions
Fecha de publicación 2017-09
ISBN 9781606601136 / 160660113X
Peso 2.6 libras (1.18 kg)
Dimensiones 10.2 x 7.3 x 1.2 pulgadas (25.91 x 18.54 x 3.05 cm)
Época de 13 a 18 años
Cursos 8 - 13
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Author and Anglican clergyman Charles Kingsley (1819-75) took an active interest in the plight of the working class and was a co-founder of England's Christian Socialist movement. In addition to writing novels, poetry, sermons, political essays, and children's stories, Kingsley taught history at Cambridge University, served as chaplain to Queen Victoria and tutor to the Prince of Wales, and was appointed canon of Westminster Abbey. A prominent American artist during the Golden Age of Illustration, Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) contributed to many popular magazines of the era, including Century, Collier's, and Harper's. In the course of her longtime association with Good Housekeeping, she created all of the periodical's covers from 1917 to 1933. Smith illustrated more than 60 books, among them Little Women and A Child's Garden of Verses.

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