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水孩兒

內容簡介

內容簡介 掃煙囪的小男孩湯姆，天天得挨師傅打罵，然而奇妙的命運降臨了。水仙收留了他，他由一身骯髒的窮小孩，變為水陸兩棲、乾淨快活的水孩兒，並經歷了一連串水中奇事……本書作者金斯萊是一位牧師，他寫的古典童話更是人人稱道。這部「水孩兒」十分清新流暢，「每一頁都散發出海風的清香」；一九○六年，英國牛津大學還選定它做為孩子們的教科書呢！以誇張的手法、豐富的想像、鮮活的筆調，刻畫人性中的各種特點，創意獨具，是一般童話題材所罕見的。本書中文書介出自《水孩兒》天衛文化出版With glorious black and white illustrations by W. Heath Robinson and an introduction by author and journalist Christina Hardyment.Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Charles Kingsley was born in Holne, Devon, in 1819. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Helston Grammar School, before moving on to King's College London and the University of Cambridge. After graduating in 1842, he pursued a career in the clergy and in 1859 was appointed chaplain to Queen Victoria. The following year he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, and became private tutor to the Prince of Wales in 1861.Kingsley resigned from Cambridge in 1869 and between 1870 and 1873 was canon of Chester cathedral. He was appointed canon of Westminster cathedral in 1873 and remained there until his death in 1875. Kingsley also wrote Westward Ho! (1855), for which the English town is named, a children's book about Greek mythology, The Heroes (1856), and several other historical novels.

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