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![]() The Water Babies (illustrated by Linley Sambourne), Macmillan & Co., London 1885 | |
Author | Charles Kingsley |
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Language | English |
Genre | Satire |
Published | London: Macmillan, 1863[1] |
Media type | Book |
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley.[2] Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in the United Kingdom and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades.