The Water -Babies (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Oxford World's Classics
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2014-07-10
Förlag
OUP OXFORD
Dimensioner
203 x 137 x 15 mm
Vikt
204 g
ISBN
9780199685455

The Water -Babies

av Charles Kingsley, Brian Alderson, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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Häftad,  Engelska, 2014-07-10
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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.

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  1. Children's book??
    Chana, 16 februari 2023

    Loved it, but a fairy tale? Yes, but perhaps not in the traditional sense. To be read by grown-ups. The protagonist is a child on his way to become a better being with the help of guiding fairies. Combines the traditional elements of a tale with discussions about philosophy, politics and science that would not be understood by a child. A lovely book I totally enjoyed and recommend to children over ... 25.

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Charles Kingsley, Brian Alderson, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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Brian Alderson has long been involved in the study of children's literature as editor, translator, lecturer, and exhibitions organizer. He takes a particular interest in bibliographic aspects, especially those related to the history of British and American publishing and illustration. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is the author of Becoming Dickens (Harvard UP, 2011), winner of the 2011 Duff Cooper Prize, and he has edited editions of Dickens's Great Expectations, and A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books and Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor for Oxford World's Classics. He writes regularly for publications including the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, TLS, and New Statesman.

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