An edition of The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby (1863)

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An edition of The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby (1863)

The water babies

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  • ★★★★ 4.3 (10 ratings)
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The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby.

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Children's Classics, Distributed by Crown Publishers
Language
English
Pages
240

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The Water-Babies
2023, Standard Ebooks
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The water babies
2003, MDS Books/Mediasat
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The Water-babies
2001, Egmont, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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THE WATER-BABIES: A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY.
1998, P/B, Parragon
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The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby
1993, Bloomsbury Press
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The water babies
1986, Children's Classics, Distributed by Crown Publishers
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The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby
1979, Godfrey Cave Associates Ltd
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The Water -babies
1972, The Macmillan Co.Of India Limited
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The water-babies
1954, Junior Deluxe Editions
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The Water Babies
1899, Henry Altemus Company
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The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land baby
1878, Macmillan
in English - New ed.
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The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby
1864, T.O.H.P. Burnham, O.S. Felt ...
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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ8.K619 Wat 1986

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 240 p., [12] p. of plates :
Number of pages
240

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL2719623M
Internet Archive
waterbabies00king_0
ISBN 10
0517618176
LCCN
86012966
OCLC/WorldCat
13643100
LibraryThing
20409
Goodreads
2066308

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1130038W

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Work Description

The story follows Tom in his land-life as a climbing boy for a chimney-sweep and in his after-life as a water-baby, where he gains redemption from selfishness as well as from drudgery. On to his fantasy Kingsley grafts a series of digressions and comic asides, through which he comments on a range of contemporary issues.

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