Charles Kingsley

The Water-Babies

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Aug. 25, 2011)
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
ISBN
1466200332 / 9781466200333
Pages
176
Weight
16.0 oz.
Dimensions
8.0 x 0.4 in.

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