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By: Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) | |
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The Water-Babies
First published in 1863, The Water Babies by Rev Charles Kingsley became a Victorian children's classic along with J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Lewis Caroll's Alice books. It is an endearing and entertaining novel that can equally be enjoyed by adult readers as well. However, it fell out of favor in later years since it contained many ideas that are considered politically incorrect and offensive today from a humanitarian perspective. The Water Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby to give the book its complete title tells the story of Tom, a young orphan chimney-sweep in Victorian London... | |
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the characters would inspire children to achieve higher goals with integrity. | |
Hypatia
Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 - January 23 1875) was an English divine, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire. As a novelist, his chief power lay in his descriptive faculties, which are evident in this novel as he pictures the Egyptian desert and the ancient city Alexandria. Hypatia, 1st published in 1853, is set in 5th Century A.D. Egypt. It centers upon a young orphan monk from a desert monastery who feels called to continue his religious life in the city... | |
Madam How and Lady Why
Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book has all the answers (at least all the ones that were known in 1869) and gives them in a pedagogical way. Listed on the Ambleside homeschooling list. | |
The Saint's Tragedy | |
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth | |
Hereward, the Last of the English | |
Health and Education | |
Scientific Essays and Lectures | |
Historical Lectures and Essays | |
Westminster Sermons with a Preface | |
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography | |
At Last | |
The Ancien Regime | |
Froude's History of England | |
All Saints' Day and Other Sermons | |
Sermons for the Times | |
Town and Country Sermons | |
Discipline and Other Sermons | |
Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh | |
Twenty-Five Village Sermons | |
The Water of Life and Other Sermons | |
Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife | |
Yeast: a Problem | |
Sermons on National Subjects | |
Town Geology | |
True Words for Brave Men A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries | |
The Hermits | |
Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore | |
Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time | |
Out of the Deep Words for the Sorrowful | |
The Gospel of the Pentateuch | |
Literary and General Lectures and Essays | |
Prose Idylls, New and Old | |
Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 | |
The Good News of God | |
Plays and Puritans | |
Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc | |
Two Years Ago, Volume I | |
David | |
Women and Politics | |
Two Years Ago, Volume II. | |
Phaethon | |
The Roman and the Teuton A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge | |
Christmas Carol
volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Christmas Carol by Charles Kingsley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 22, 2019. ------ Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. - Summary by Wikipedia | |
Heroes; Or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children
This is Kingsley's masterful retelling of the Greek stories about their Heroes and in a manner suitable for children. "why have I called this book ‘The Heroes’? Because that was the name which the Hellens gave to men who were brave and skilful, and dare do more than other men. At first, I think, that was all it meant: but after a time it came to mean something more; it came to mean men who helped their country; men in those old times, when the country was half-wild, who killed fierce beasts and evil men, and drained swamps, and founded towns, and therefore after they were dead, were honoured, because they had left their country better than they found it... | |
(Spanish) criaturas acuaticas
Los Bebes Acuáticos: un cuento de Hadas para un bebe terrestre, es una novela para niños escrita por el Reverendo Charles Kingsley. Es controversial ya que está teñido de pensamientos arcaicos, discriminadores a veces, y con algunas metáforas que pueden considerarse ofensivas hoy en día. Publicada dos años antes que Alicia en el País de las Maravillas, Los niños del agua se ha confundido a menudo con un relato meramente infantil aunque, al igual que la novela de Lewis Carroll, supera con creces cualquier barrera de edad... |