The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781545385241 - April 15, 2017
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The Water-Babies

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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 15, 2017
ISBN13 9781545385241
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 150
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 8 mm   ·   208 g
Language English  

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