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THE WATER-BABIES
de Kingsley, Charles
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
-
Monmouthshire, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Published by Constable & Co. Ltd., 1915. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Robinson, W. Heath. Good condition with no wrapper. A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Green cloth, gilt titles & vignettes. 8 colour plates, numerous b/w illustrations. 319 pages. Bumping to spine and corners. Spine and cover edges darkened. Gilt on spine is dulled. Large score mark to rear cover. Newspaper cuttings have been stuck to front endpaper. Small booksellers label and small patch of newsprint to front pastedown. Front joint beginning to crack. Browning to endpapers and tissue guard to frontis. Name and numbers (Isa 14/20) written in ink on front endpaper. Foxing to prelims and page edges. Some fingering. Plates all present.
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
- Stella & Rose's Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1406768
- Título
- THE WATER-BABIES
- Autor
- Kingsley, Charles
- Ilustrador
- Illustrated by Robinson, W. Heath
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Edición
- 1st edition.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1915
- Palabras clave
- CHILDRENS
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Monmouthshire, Aberdeen
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