Charles Kingsley

Opowieść o małym kominiarczyku Tomie, którego dobre wróżki zamieniły w wodne dziecko. Chłopiec przeżywa niezwykłe przygody w magicznym świecie rzecznych stworzeń. Jednocześnie poważni i dostojni naukowcy usiłują za wszelką cenę dowieść, że wodne dzieci nie istnieją....

The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's books ever published. Written by an Anglican clergyman with an insatiable love of science, the story combines an uplifting moral about redemption with a crash course in evolutionary theory, and has an imaginative exuberance equalled only by Lewis Carroll. Young Tom is a...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. I have been asked to speak a few words to you on a lady's work in a country parish. I shall confine myself rather to principles than to details; and the first principle which I would impress on you is, that we must all be just before we are generous. I must, indeed, speak plainly on this point. A...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. I should not have presumed to choose for any lectures of mine such a subject as that which I have tried to treat in this book. The subject was chosen by the Institution where the lectures were delivered. Still less should I have presumed to print them of my own accord, knowing how fragmentary and crude they...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. 'Truth is stranger than fiction. ' A trite remark. We all say it again and again: but how few of us believe it! How few of us, when we read the history of heroical times and heroical men, take the story simply as it stands! On the contrary, we try to explain it away; to prove it all not to have...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. TO THE RAJAH SIR JAMES BROOKE, K. C. B. AND GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN, D. D. BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED By one who (unknown to them) has no other method of expressing his admiration and reverence for their characters....