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The Water-Babies
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A Victorian fairy tale and moral fable in which a young chimney sweep, Tom, drowns and is transformed into a water-baby, encountering the creatures and spirits of the stream and sea. Readers interested in children's literature, natural history, and nineteenth-century moral and scientific thought will appreciate it.
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. A broad church priest of the Church of England, he is particularly associated with Christian socialism, Anti-Catholicism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. He is known for his novels Yeast (1848), Alton Locke (1850), Hypatia (1853), Westward Ho! (1855), The Water-Babies (1863), and Hereward the Wake (1866).
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