The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley with Jessie Willcox Smith (Illustrator)

242 pages first pub 1863 (editions)

fiction childrens classics fantasy adventurous lighthearted reflective slow-paced
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The Water-Babies is a novel by Charles Kingsley. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the...

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