The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. [1] Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in the United Kingdom and ...

Water babies are mysterious and dangerous water spirits from the folklore of California and other Western Native American tribes. Water-babies are said to inhabit springs and sometimes ponds or streams.

2013年10月9日 · Charles Kingsley was an eccentric who once made friends with a wasp which he saved from drowning. He gave a Devon village its name. He gave us a number of words and phrases still in common use. His most famous work, The Water-Babies, is an odd book which is at once a children's classic, a moral…

Water Babies are spirits featured in the folklore of several Western Native American tribes, particularly among the Great Basin Indians. These entities are believed to inhabit bodies of water such as springs, ponds, and streams, often appearing as infants whose cries are considered an omen of impending disaster.

What is The Water Babies about? This classic tale follows Tom, an orphan chimney sweep. After a series of unfortunate events, he drowns and transforms into a water baby. His new aquatic life leads him on adventures filled with fantasy, moral lessons, and encounters with unique characters. Book Details. Title: The Water Babies. Author: Charles ...

THE WATER BABIES by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, a Victorian era children's novel first published in book form in England in 1863, achieved a level of popularity for decades in its day that spurred me as an adult to read it a hundred and fifty years later.

“The Water-Babies” is a classic children’s novel written by Charles Kingsley in 1863. The novel tells the story of a young chimney sweep named Tom who falls into a river and is transformed into a water-baby. The book is often regarded as a moral fable and a response to the theory of evolution, as Kingsley was a supporter of Charles Darwin’s work.

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby is an 1863 novel for children by the British professor, cleric, and activist Charles Kingsley. The novel was originally written to satirize religious, pseudoscientific alternatives to Charles Darwin’s seminal work on evolutionary biology, On the Origin of Species .

Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby is an English Victorian fairy tale that traces the progress of little Tom, a chimney sweep, from a world of filth, poverty, and...

In 1863 there appeared The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley. In this fascinating, yet repulsive, “Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby,” an unctuous cleric and a fanciful poet, uneasily inhabiting one body, collaborated. The Water-Babies may stand as a rough symbol of the bumpy passage from the moral tale to a… Read More