The Water BabiesThe Floating Press, 1 de out. de 2011 - 210 páginas Readers of every age will delight in this fantastical fairy tale from Charles Kingsley. Tom, a young chimney sweep, comes to a tragically untimely end and is transformed into a mystical creature known as a water baby that resides in a magical sub-aqueous environment. Despite its nineteenth-century vintage, this engrossing fable has important lessons to teach today's readers. |
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... sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. "To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran, And much it grieved my heart to think, What man has made of man." WORD SWORTH. Once upon a time ...
... sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. "To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran, And much it grieved my heart to think, What man has made of man." WORD SWORTH. Once upon a time ...
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... sweet white orchis, nor such a one as you may see, too, here, which bubbles up under the warm sandbank in the hollow lane by the great tuft of lady ferns, and makes the sand dance reels at the bottom, day and night, all the year round ...
... sweet white orchis, nor such a one as you may see, too, here, which bubbles up under the warm sandbank in the hollow lane by the great tuft of lady ferns, and makes the sand dance reels at the bottom, day and night, all the year round ...
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... sweet young lady's room? And behold, it was himself, reflected in a great mirror, the like of which Tom had never seen before. And Tom, for the first time in his life, found out that he was dirty, and burst into tears with shame and ...
... sweet young lady's room? And behold, it was himself, reflected in a great mirror, the like of which Tom had never seen before. And Tom, for the first time in his life, found out that he was dirty, and burst into tears with shame and ...
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... sweet white flowers, almost as big as his head. It was magnolia, I suppose, but Tom knew nothing about that, and cared less, for down the tree he went, like a cat, and across the garden lawn, and over the iron railings and up the park ...
... sweet white flowers, almost as big as his head. It was magnolia, I suppose, but Tom knew nothing about that, and cared less, for down the tree he went, like a cat, and across the garden lawn, and over the iron railings and up the park ...
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Chapter II | 31 |
Chapter III | 56 |
Chapter IV | 84 |
Chapter V | 115 |
Chapter VI | 141 |
Chapter VII | 163 |
Chapter VIII And Last | 191 |
Moral | 228 |
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afraid asked baby backstairs beasts beautiful Bedonebyasyoudid began birch-rod birds bogies Brandan catch caught chimney chimney-sweep clean crag creatures cried crying dirty dovekies dragon-fly Epimetheus eyes fairy fancy fast fellow find fine finger fire first fish five flew floated flowers fly folks frightened gentleman grew Grimes Harthover head heard Hellebore hippopotamus hole Holothurian hundred Irishwoman jumped knew lady laughed legs little boys little children little Ellie live lobster looked Mother Carey mouth nasty naughty never night nose once Other-end-of-Nowhere otter perhaps petrels poor little pretty professor rocks round salmon seen Shiny Wall Sir John sleep stone strange stream stupid swam sweet tail tell things thought thunderbox told Tom longed Tom waited Tom's took trout truncheon turned ugly Vendale water-babies wings wonderful words