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Best Selling Books by Charles KingsleyCharles Kingsley is the author of Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Westminster sermons, Twenty-Five Village Sermons (2009), The Water Babies (2017), Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Sermons for the times, The Heroes.
Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Westminster sermons
Twenty-Five Village Sermons
release date: Nov 05, 2009
release date: Sep 13, 2017
Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Sermons for the times
Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: The water-babies
Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Westward ho!
THE WATER BABIES - A Children's Classic
release date: Aug 26, 2020
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children''s novel by Charles Kingsley between 1862–63. It is written as part satire, satirising the events of the period. The book’s protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house. There he appears to drown and is transformed into a "water-baby", as he is told by a caddisfly—an insect that sheds its skin—and begins his moral education. Tom embarks on a series of adventures and lessons, and enjoys the community of other water-babies on Saint Brendan''s Island once he proves himself a moral creature. The major spiritual leaders in his new world are the fairies Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby (a reference to the Golden Rule), Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid, and Mother Carey. Weekly, Tom is allowed the company of Ellie, who eventually becomes a water-baby as well. Grimes, his old master, drowns as well, and in his final adventure, Tom travels to the end of the world to attempt to help the man where he is being punished for his misdeeds. Tom helps Grimes to find repentance, and Grimes will be given a second chance if he can successfully perform a final penance. By proving his willingness to do things he does not like, if they are the right things to do, Tom earns himself a return to human form, and becomes "a great man of science" who "can plan railways, design steam-engines, electric telegraphs, rifled guns, and so forth". He and Ellie are united, although the book states (perhaps jokingly) that they never marry, claiming that in fairy tales, no one beneath the rank of prince and princess ever marries. The book ends with the caveat that it is only a fairy tale, and the reader is to believe none of it, "even if it is true." Initially published in serial form Macmillan''s Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that England treats its poor badly, and to question child labour, among other themes. ================ KEYWORDS/TAGS: Water Babies, fairy tale, land babies, childrens novel, childrens stories, Charles kingsley, satire, magical, enchanting, adventure, underwater, under sea, dragonfly, Land Babies, Water-Babies, Down To The Sea, Fairies, Tom, St. Brandans Isle, Leap Frog, Jump, Little White Lady, Give Chase, Lizards, Bathe, Old Dame, Cool, Clear Water, Pterodactyles, Cramchild, Queen, Learn, Old Salmon, Wicked, Old Otter, Coasting, Point Of Rock, Champagne, Swam, Buoy, Terns, Lazy Sunfish, Distinguished, Lobster, Professor, Ptthmllnsprts, Wise Man, Leap Frog, Town Clerk, White Sand, Inshore, Fishes, Nursery Maid, Nasty Old Monk, Ellie, Surprise, Warm Springs, Light Summer, Flapdoodle Tree, Eft, Pond, Beasts of the Sea, Grand Old Lady, Quakeress, Good Crow, Water Dog, Jellyfish, Mackerel, Epimetheus, Pandora, Old Mother Shipton, Great Sea serpent, Philosophers, Gotham, Spectacles, Poor Turnip Sun, Mr. Grimes, Bandage, Black Cedars, folklore, fantasy, waterfall, Caddisfly. education, Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby, Golden Rule, Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid, Mother Carey,
release date: Nov 28, 2008
Twenty-Five Village Sermons, by Charles Kingsley (World's Classics)
release date: Aug 03, 2016
release date: Jul 28, 2020
Alexandria and Her Schools
release date: Sep 04, 2022
Collected Works of Charles Kingsley - Scholar's Choice Edition
release date: Feb 16, 2015
The Heroes Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
release date: Mar 01, 2024
The Heroes, Or Greek Fairy Tales
release date: Sep 16, 2016
The Heroes; Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
release date: Jan 14, 2019
The Water-Babies Illustrated
release date: Nov 08, 2020
Hypatia, Or, New Foes with an Old Face
release date: Feb 02, 2018
Charles Kingsley - the Water-Babies
release date: Nov 07, 2016
The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
release date: Dec 10, 2009
Hypatia Or, New Foes with an Old Face - Charles Kingsley
release date: Dec 02, 2009
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