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Gift edition of Charles Kingsley's Victorian tale, a delightful new addition to the Flame Tree Collectable Classics 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.
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The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley
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- 2024
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- Title
- The Water-Babies
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Charles Kingsley
- Publisher
- Flame Tree Publishing
- Released
- 2024
- ISBN10
- 1804177881
- ISBN13
- 9781804177884
- Series
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- Gift edition of Charles Kingsley's Victorian tale, a delightful new addition to the Flame Tree Collectable Classics 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.