Water-Babies

Zusatztext This new OUP edition has splendid notes, which should guide you through the abstruse references if you want them too. Theres also a learned introduction for those who like a bit of background information. Informationen zum Autor Brian Alderson has long been involved in the study of children's literature as editor, translator, lecturer, and exhibitions organizer. He takes a particular interest in bibliographic aspects, especially those related to the history of British and American publishing and illustration. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is the author of Becoming Dickens (Harvard UP, 2011), winner of the 2011 Duff Cooper Prize, and he has edited editions of Dickens's Great Expectations, and A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books and Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor for Oxford World's Classics. He writes regularly for publications including the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, TLS, and New Statesman. Klappentext 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 illustrations with a lively introduction and notes that reveal the full richness of Kingsley's exuberant story. Zusammenfassung 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 illustrations with a lively introduction and notes that reveal the full richness of Kingsley's exuberant story.

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This new OUP edition has splendid notes, which should guide you through the abstruse references if you want them too. Theres also a learned introduction for those who like a bit of background information. Harriet Devine, Shiny New Books

Product details

• Authors: Brian Alderson, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Charles Kingsley
• Assisted by: Douglas-Fairhurst Robert (Introduction)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 12
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9780199685455
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968545-5
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Narrative literature; JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, Classic fiction: general and literary