The Water-Babies . By: Charles Kingsley and illustrated By: Jessie Willcox Smith. ( children's NOVEL ) - Softcover

Kingsley, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1975696808 ISBN 13: 9781975696801

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend 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, Americans, and the poor

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Kingsley (1819Â 1875) was an Anglican minister, the Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, and the author of numerous novels, including Westward Ho! He also wrote poetry, sermons, and magazine articles. Richard D. Beards is an associate professor of English at Temple University.

Review:

''Everyone who has an interest in the exuberant, eclectic, ecological, and erotic aspects of Victorian literature should know this book . . . [A] delightful and important work of Victorian children's literature.'' --Naomi Wood, Associate Professor of English, Kansas State University

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1975696808
• ISBN 13: 9781975696801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110
• Illustrator: Smith Jessie Willcox