The water-babies
Subtitle: a fairy tale for a land-baby
By: by Charles Kingsley.
Edition: Vignette ed. With one hundred new illustrations by Frederick C. Gordon.
Publisher: F.A. Stokes company
Published: 1891
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Description: The water-babies was inspired by Kingsley's thoughts on evolution. He was one of the few clergymen to accept wholeheartedly Darwin's theories of evolution and natural selection and to devote himself to the spread of the new knowledge of nature.