The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

With illustrations by Linley Sambourne. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1907 edition by Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London ; New York. The story follows Tom in his land-life as a climbing boy for a chimney-sweep and in his after-life as a water-baby, where he gains redemption from selfishness as well as from drudgery. On to his fantasy Kingsley grafts a series of digressions and comic asides, through which he comments on a range of contemporary issues.