The Water-Babies is an extraordinary children's book that combines fantasy, satire, social comment, and evolutionary theory to create a fairy tale like no other. This attractive new edition reprints the original complete text and...

Der kleine Schornsteinfeger Tom fällt ins Wasser. Alle glauben, dass er ertrunken ist. Doch statt dessen wird er in ein Wasserkind verwandelt und erlebt in der Wasserwelt viele Abenteuer ... Dieses Buch wurde von dem bekannten englischen...

Reproduction of the original. von Kingsley, Charles

Excerpt: ...the south of Austria, near the top of the Adriatic), which runs, I believe, for miles in length; and in the lakes of which, in darkness from its birth until its death, lives that strange beast, the Proteus a sort of long newt...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made...

A young, ill-treated chimney sweep enters a magical waterworld where he meets creatures that teach him the difference between right and wrong. 32 illustrations. von Kingsley, Charles