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The Water Babies
de Charles Kingsley
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Aceptable
- Librería
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2002. Collector's Edition. Fine. Frontispiece and 11 full-color plates and green and white illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. The book is tight with solid hinges, good corners, and illustrated 24kt gold front cover, rear cover and spine decorations. Bound in dark green leather with raised bands to the spine, gilded pages, silk moiré end papers and a sewn-in satin bookmark. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings. 240 pages. 7½ x 10" tall.
Shamed by his grimy appearance in the presence of an immaculate little girl, ten-year-old Tom — an ill-treated London chimney-sweep — promptly runs away. Diving into a river, he enters a magical underwater world of fairies and other whimsical creatures who teach him about truth, mercy, justice, courage, and other virtues. Although Charles Kingsley's fable can be read as simply a charming morality tale, it also blends elements of a scientific satire and a political tract. Kingsley not only parodied the controversy surrounding the then-new concept of natural selection but also helped foster legislation protecting abused children like his young hero.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 4450
- Título
- The Water Babies
- Autor
- Charles Kingsley
- Ilustrador
- Jessie Willcox Smith
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Leather
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Easton Press
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Easton Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Norwalk, CT
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
- Páginas
- 240
- Tamaño
- 7.5 x 10
- Peso
- 4.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- fantasy, children's book, satire, classic, charles kingsley, easton press
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Collector's Editions; Easton Press;
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Carrollton, Texas
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- Raised Band(s)
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