The Water Babies by Kingsley C(Paperback),English&Chinese,2008 - Couverture souple

Kingsley C

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ISBN 10 : 7302203237 ISBN 13 : 9787302203230

Editeur : Tsinghua University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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. The story The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house. There he dies and is transformed into a "water baby", as he is told by a caddis fly - an insect that sheds its skin - and begins his moral education. The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that England treats its poor badly, and to question child labour, among other themes.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Tsinghua University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 7302203237
• ISBN 13: 9787302203230
• Reliure: Paperback