Length7h 9m
About this audiobook
The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house. There he appears to drown and is transformed into a "water-baby",[3] as he is told by a caddisfly—an insect that sheds its skin—and begins his moral education. The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that England treats its poor badly, and to question child labour, among other themes. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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Rating★★★★ 3.6 (15K)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length7 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 27, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE WATER BABIES
6CHAPTER V
2CHAPTER I
7CHAPTER VI
3CHAPTER II
8CHAPTER VII
4CHAPTER III
9CHAPTER VIII AND LAST
5CHAPTER IV
10MORAL.
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