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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Charles Kingsley. And Grimes laughed again, and then the two men began talking, quite low. Tom could hear, though, that it was about some poaching fight, and at last Grimes said surlily, "Hast thou anything against me?" "Not now." "Then ...
Charles Kingsley. And Grimes laughed again, and then the two men began talking, quite low. Tom could hear, though, that it was about some poaching fight, and at last Grimes said surlily, "Hast thou anything against me?" "Not now." "Then ...
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... talk him into spending a hundred thousand pounds or so, in building, to please them and not himself. But he always put them off, like a canny Northcountryman as he was. One wanted him to build a Gothic house, but he said he was no Goth ...
... talk him into spending a hundred thousand pounds or so, in building, to please them and not himself. But he always put them off, like a canny Northcountryman as he was. One wanted him to build a Gothic house, but he said he was no Goth ...
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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