Best Selling Books by Charles Kingsley

A Victorian tale in which Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, is stolen by fairies and turned into a water-baby.

Charles Kingsley, in his collection of sermons titled "Discipline and Other Sermons," delves into a multitude of themes central to Christian life and belief. Kingsley''s sermons, marked by their insightful analysis and engaging storytelling, serve as potent reminders of the enduring relevance of faith in a constantly evolving world.

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The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children''s novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-63 as a serial for Macmillan''s Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin''s The Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children''s literature for many decades, but eventually fell out of favour in part due to its prejudices (common at the time) against Irish, Jews, Catholics and Americans

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The Heroes By Charles Kingsley

Excerpt: "I am bound to speak of the farmer, as I know him in the South of England. In the North he is a man of altogether higher education and breeding: but he is, even in the South, a much better man than it is the fashion to believe him. No doubt, he has given heavy cause of complaint. He was demoralised, as surely, if not as deeply, as his own labourers, by the old Poor Law. He was bewildered—to use the mildest term—by promises of Protection from men who knew better. But his worst fault after all has been, that young or old, he has copied his landlord too closely, and acted on his maxims and example. And now that his landlord is growing wiser, he is growing wiser too. Experience of the new Poor Law, and experience of Free-trade, are helping him to show himself what he always was at heart, an honest Englishman. All his brave persistence and industry, his sturdy independence and self-help, and last, but not least, his strong sense of justice, and his vast good-nature, are coming out more and more, and working better and better upon the land and the labourer; while among his sons I see many growing up brave, manly, prudent young men, with a steadily increasing knowledge of what is required of them, both as manufacturers of food, and employers of human labour."