The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley with Jessie Willcox Smith (Illustrator)

242 pages paperback 1863

242 editions

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The Water-Babies is a novel by Charles Kingsley. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the...

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