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Author:   Charles Kingsley ,  Richard Kelly
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.375kg
ISBN:  

9781551117737

ISBN 10:   1551117738
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 May 2008
Recommended Age:   From 9 to 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children / Juvenile
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Charles Kingsley: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text The Water-Babies Appendix A: William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper” from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (1789, 1794) Appendix B: Matthew Arnold, “The Forsaken Merman” from The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849) Appendix C: From Heinrich Hoffman, Struwwelpeter (1845) Appendix D: From Lewis Carroll, “The Mock-Turtle’s Story” in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Appendix E: From Margaret Gatty, “Whereunto?” Parables From Nature (1861) Appendix F: From Maria Susanna Cummins, The Lamplighter (1854) Appendix G: From Samuel G. Goodrich, Peter Parley’s Method of Telling About Geography to Children (1831) Appendix H: Reflections of Charles Kingsley on Nature and Sanitation From Charles Kingsley, Glaucus; or,The Wonders of the Shore (1855) From Charles Kingsley, Madame How and Lady Why or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children (1870) From Charles Kingsley, “Air-Mothers,” in Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays (1880) From Letter XII Appendix I: Joseph Noel Paton’s Illustrations for the First Edition of The Water-Babies (1863) Appendix J: Reviews of The Water-Babies The Anthropological Review (November 1863) New York Times (25 December 1863) The Times (26 January 1864) The Times (12 December 1885) Bibliography

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A new and unabridged edition of The Water-Babies is an unlooked-for pleasure. Everyone who has an interest in the exuberant, eclectic, ecological, and erotic aspects of Victorian literature should know this book. When combined with the definitive illustrations by Linley Sambourne and a wealth of explanatory notes, appendices, and other critical tools, this edition becomes indispensable. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Richard Kelly and to Broadview Press for editing and re-issuing this delightful and important work of Victorian children's literature. --Naomi Wood

A new and unabridged edition of The Water-Babies is an unlooked-for pleasure. Everyone who has an interest in the exuberant, eclectic, ecological, and erotic aspects of Victorian literature should know this book. When combined with the definitive illustrations by Linley Sambourne and a wealth of explanatory notes, appendices, and other critical tools, this edition becomes indispensable. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Richard Kelly and to Broadview Press for editing and re-issuing this delightful and important work of Victorian children's literature. - Naomi Wood, Kansas State University This is a long overdue, thoroughly detailed, and informative edition of Kingsley's classic Victorian children's tale. Though The Water-Babies has had great popular success since first publication, especially in the UK, it has frequently been read in abbreviated versions with many of Kingsley's often lengthy asides on politics, religion, education, and other pressing topics of the day omitted. This Broadview edition, following closely the first book text of 1863, includes all of Kingsley's fascinating diversions. The work is greatly enhanced by Professor Kelly's many scholarly appendices and numerous instructive annotations on the text. The result is an excellent edition that renders this intriguing classic much more amenable to the modern reader. - Brendan A. Rapple, Boston College

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Richard Kelly is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. He is the editor of the Broadview Editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.

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