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     • In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable. In it, Kingsley expresses many of the common prejudices of that time period, and the book includes dismissive or insulting references to Americans, [a] Jews, [b] Blacks, [c] and Catholics, [d] particularly the Irish.
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   Is the Water-Babies a fairy tale or a fable?

   • The book ends with the caveat that it is only a fairy tale, and the reader is to believe none of it, "even if it is true". In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable.

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   Is the Water-Babies a moral fable?

   • In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable. In it, Kingsley expresses many of the common prejudices of that time period, and the book includes dismissive or insulting references to Americans, [a] Jews, [b] Blacks, [c] and Catholics, [d] particularly the Irish. [f]

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   Why did Charles Kingsley write the Water-Babies?

   • 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.

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   What is a water baby based on?

   • 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 abuse to an aquatic fantasy world in which he eventually becomes physically and spiritually clean.

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   When was the water Babys written?

   • The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. 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.

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   What is a water baby by Charles Kingsley about?

   • First published in 1862 Reverend Charles Kingsley’s classic novel about a young chimney sweep who after falling into a river finds himself transformed in to an aquatic creature, a 'Water Baby'. The tale begins relatively realistically, and when Tom plunges into the water in becomes a mix of social and scientific satire.

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   In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable. In it, Kingsley expresses many of the common prejudices of that time period, and the book includes dismissive or insulting references to Americans, [a] Jews, [b] Blacks, [c] and Catholics, [d] particularly the Irish. [f]

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   This story is far more than a simple fairy tale, in parts it's a political tract. Kingsley was appalled by the plight of the young sweeps, condemned by their brutal masters to a life of misery and, often, early deaths, if not from falls then from lung disease or cancer.

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   Mar 14, 2013 · In describing the underwater adventures of Tom, a chimney-sweeper's boy who is transformed into a water-baby after he drowns, Charles Kingsley combined comic fantasy and moral fable to...

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   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.

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   In describing the underwater adventures of Tom, a chimney-sweeper's boy who is transformed into a water-baby after he drowns, Charles Kingsley combined comic fantasy and moral fable to extraordinary effect.

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    “The Water-Babies” by Charles Kingsley, published in 1863, is a compelling fairy tale that takes readers on a captivating journey through the adventures of a young chimney sweep named Tom. Through this imaginative tale, Kingsley explores themes of morality, personal growth, and the interconnectedness of all living beings.