The Water-Babies
ISBN: 9780199645602 | 0199645604
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/14/2013
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The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's books ever published. Written by an Anglican clergyman with an insatiable love of science, the story combines an uplifting moral about redemption with a crash course in evolutionary theory, and has an imaginative exuberance equalled only by Lewis Carroll. Young Tom is a chimney-sweeper's boy who one day falls into a river and drowns, only to be transformed into a water-baby. Through his encounters with friendly fish, curious lobsters, and characters such as Mrs Doasyou... MORE
Brian Alderson has long been involved in the study of children's literature as editor, translator, lecturer, and exhibitions organizer.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of Becoming Dickens, winner of the 2011 Duff Cooper Prize, and he writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, and New Statesman.
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