The Water Babies

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.' Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in Ellie's bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream where he falls asleep. In his dreamlike world, he becomes a water baby, swimming with the other water babies and discovering an aquatic playground full of strange and wonderful characters.

Despre autor

Charles Kingsley

Preot englez, istoric și romancier (1819–1875)

Charles Kingsley a fost un cleric englez, reformator social, istoric, romancier și poet. Preot al unei biserici largi din cadrul Bisericii Angliei, este asociat în special cu socialismul creștin, anti-catolicismul, colegiul muncitorilor și formarea cooperativelor muncitorești, care au eșuat, dar au încurajat reforme ulterioare pentru muncitori.