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A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon
markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is
accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced
for the modern reader. A masterpiece of nostalgia, Charles
Kingsley's Victorian classic tells of Tom, a young chimney sweep
who falls into a river and, becoming a water-baby, is guided back
to humanity through a series of adventures, each with a moral
lesson. Part of the fascination with the book today is the
reflection of Victorian-era debates about poverty, working children
and the eternal conflict between nature vs nurture. The FLAME TREE
COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless
home library.
It's adventure time!! For well over a century now, children's classics have brought joy, laughter and stimulated adventures in young readers and brought some fairy tales into life, now its your turn to join in the fun!
Join your favourite characters of all time in this 10 Book Collection.
Titles included are:
Heidi
Alice's adventure in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass
The Water babies
Kidnapped
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Black Beauty
The Secret Garden
The Jungle Book
Treasure Island
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'In fact, the fairies had turned him into a
water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps
not. That is the very reason why this story was written.' Poor Tom
is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep.
While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in
Ellie's bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in
fright, down to the edge of a stream where he falls asleep. In his
dreamlike world, he becomes a water baby, swimming with the other
water babies and discovering an aquatic playground full of strange
and wonderful characters.
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The Hermits
Charles Kingsley
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The Water -Babies (Paperback)
Charles Kingsley; Revised by Brian Alderson; Introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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R179
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'this is all a fairy tale...and, therefore, you are not to believe
a word of it, even if it is true' The Water-Babies (1863) is one of
the strangest and most powerful children's stories ever written. In
describing the underwater adventures of Tom, a chimney-sweeper's
boy who is transformed into a water-baby after he drowns, Charles
Kingsley combined comic fantasy and moral fable to extraordinary
effect. Tom's encounters with friendly fish, curious lobsters, and
characters such as Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby are both an exciting
fairy tale and a crash course in evolutionary theory. They also
reflect the quirky imagination of one of the great Victorian
eccentrics. Tom's adventures are constantly interrupted by
Kingsley's sideswipes at contemporary issues such as child labour
and the British education system, and they offer a rich satiric
take on the great scientific debates of the day. This edition
reprints the original complete version of the story, and includes a
lively introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and an appendix
that reprints Kingsley's first attempt to describe the mysterious
creatures that live under the sea.
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's
novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a
serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its
entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day,
and was a mainstay of children's literature through the 1920s.
After being chased from the home of an upper-class young girl
called Ellie, chimney-sweep Tom falls asleep and tumbles into a
river. There he is transformed into a 'water-baby' and his
adventures truly begin. Beneath the surface, he enters a magical
world full of strange and wonderful creatures, where he must prove
his moral worth in order to earn what he truly desires. One of the
most unusual children's books ever written, The Water-Babies,
subtitled 'A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby', was originally intended
as a satire in support of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of
Species, and explores many of the issues at the forefront of
biologists' minds at the time. First published as a complete novel
in 1863, Charles Kingsley's classic tale also explores ideas about
religion, the Victorian education system and the working conditions
of children and the poor. With glorious black and white
illustrations by W. Heath Robinson and an introduction by author
and journalist Christina Hardyment. Designed to appeal to the book
lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful
gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's
Library are books to love and treasure.
The classic story of a chimney-boy's discoveries in a magical underwater world. Tom, an ill-treated chimney-boy, jumps into a cool stream to clean the soot off himself - and becomes a water baby, cleaner and happier than he has ever been, in a fairy world under river and sea. Meeting beautiful and frightening creatures, getting into all sorts of mishaps, and learning some lessons along the way, Tom travels to the Other-end-of-Nowhere on an unforgettable voyage of discovery. This story has been specially abridged for Puffin Classics
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The Saint's Tragedy
Charles Kingsley
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The Saint's Tragedy
Charles Kingsley
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R2,006
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Town Geology
Charles Kingsley
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R1,499
R1,418
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Town Geology
Charles Kingsley
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R1,497
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Town Geology
Charles Kingsley
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R2,015
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The Hermits
Charles Kingsley
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R994
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The King of the Earth
Charles Kingsley
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The King of the Earth
Charles Kingsley
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Town Geology
Charles Kingsley
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