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Charles Kingsley (1819–1875)

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Charles Kingsley, a clergyman of the Church of England, who late in his life held the chair of history at Cambridge University, wrote mostly didactic historical romances. He put the historical novel to new use, not to teach history, but to illustrate some religious truth. Westward Ho! (1855), his visa mer best-known work, is a tale of the Spanish main in the days of Queen Elizabeth I. Hypatia: New Foes with Old Faces (1853) is the story of a pagan girl-philosopher who was torn to pieces by a Christian mob. The story is strongly anti-Roman Catholic.. Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful (1866) is a tale of a Saxon outlaw. The Water-Babies (1863), written for Kingsley's youngest child, "would be a tale for children were it not for the satire directed at the parents of the period," said Andrew Lang. Alton Locke (1850) and Yeast (1851) reflect Kingsley's leadership in "muscular Christianity" and his dramatization of social issues. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Charles Kingsley

Havsbarnen (1863) 2,903 exemplar
Grekiska hjältesagor (1856) 933 exemplar
Westward Ho! (1855) 906 exemplar
Madam How and Lady Why (1891) 405 exemplar
Hypatia (1853) 231 exemplar
Hereward the Wake (1866) 199 exemplar
Alton Locke (1856) 102 exemplar
Yeast (1851) 47 exemplar
Poems (1884) 36 exemplar
Two Years Ago (1857) 28 exemplar
At Last (1871) 22 exemplar
Discipline and Other Sermons (1890) 10 exemplar
Andromeda and other poems (1858) 10 exemplar
The Roman and the Teuton (1881) 10 exemplar
True words for brave men (2009) 9 exemplar
Town and Country Sermons (2012) 8 exemplar
Two Years Ago, Volume I (1881) 8 exemplar
Out of the Deep (1880) 6 exemplar
The Hermits (1875) 6 exemplar
Twenty-Five Village Sermons (1849) 5 exemplar
Sermons for the Times (2011) 5 exemplar
David (2012) 5 exemplar
Prose idylls, new and old (1873) 5 exemplar
The Gospel of the Pentateuch (2012) 5 exemplar
Alton Locke vol. 2 (1898) 4 exemplar
Town Geology (2012) 4 exemplar
Health and Education (2009) 4 exemplar
Plays and Puritans (2011) 4 exemplar
Daily Thoughts (2007) 3 exemplar
Song of the river (2012) 3 exemplar
Froude's History of England (2004) 3 exemplar
Westward ho! Vol. II (2013) 3 exemplar
The Ancien Regime (2007) 3 exemplar
The Saint's Tragedy (2011) 3 exemplar
Hereward the Wake (vol 2) (2007) 3 exemplar
The Good News of God (1887) 3 exemplar
The Sands of Dee 2 exemplar
Phaethon (2012) 2 exemplar
Hereward the Wake (1970) — Original work — 2 exemplar
Women and Politics (2011) 2 exemplar
Westward Ho (1936) 2 exemplar
Two Years Ago, Volume II. (2012) 2 exemplar
Sermons on National Subjects (2012) 2 exemplar
Miscellanies 1 exemplar
Daily thoughts 1 exemplar
Westward ho! — Original novel — 1 exemplar
WestwardHo! 1 exemplar
"Young And Old" 1 exemplar
Sermons to Dispel Anxiety (2006) 1 exemplar
Village Sermons 1 exemplar
Charles Kingsley (2010) 1 exemplar
Solitude: The Hermits (2020) 1 exemplar
The Heroes # 10 1 exemplar
The Argonauts 1 exemplar
Theseus 1 exemplar

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English Poetry, Volume III: From Tennyson to Whitman (1909) — Bidragsgivare — 607 exemplar
Fabler för vår tid (1940) — Bidragsgivare — 383 exemplar
The Treasure Chest (1932) — Bidragsgivare — 258 exemplar
The New Junior Classics Volume 03: Myths and Legends (1938) — Bidragsgivare — 235 exemplar
Apologia pro Vita Sua [Norton Critical Edition] (1968) — Bidragsgivare — 185 exemplar
The Portable Victorian Reader (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 176 exemplar
Great Stories of the Sea & Ships (1940) — Bidragsgivare — 171 exemplar
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Bidragsgivare — 114 exemplar
Best in Children's Books 30 (1960) 90 exemplar
Mary Barton [Norton Critical Edition] (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
The Junior Classics Volume 07: Stories of Courage and Heroism (1912) — Bidragsgivare — 51 exemplar
A Golden Land (1958) — Bidragsgivare — 42 exemplar
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Bidragsgivare — 26 exemplar
Open the Door (1965) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
100 Story Poems (1951) — Bidragsgivare — 20 exemplar
Poems of Magic and Spells (1960) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
The princess's story book — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The King's Story Book — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The Kingsleys: A Biographical Anthology (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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Simon Vance did a fabulous job narrating this dear classic. I had to pick this up after reading Mother Carey's Chickens with my book group. A very old fashioned morality tale. I was a little startled to have an otter be evil and whales to be bad guys. Interesting how these animals have come to be more friendly and acceptable. I enjoyed it.
 
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njcur | 44 andra recensioner | Jan 16, 2024 |
Words cannot express the depths of my loathing for this story. The only redeeming thing about this particular volume is that it has lovely painted illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith (but the drawings on every page rarely match the story). The fantasy/political commentary that Lewis Carroll perfected so beautifully 10 years later is a disaster of disjointed obnoxiousness in Kingsley. He is the king of the run-on sentence. His story-telling reminds me of a six year old little boy on a fast-moving train describing everything he sees without pausing for breath. For 400 miles.

Besides the fact that it's just a horribly-written piece of mind-numbing blathering, it angered me in other ways. Kingsley was a preacher but he obviously thought he was too smart for his Bible. The story is very pro-evolution ("water is the mother of all living things"). In fact, the story gives us a good look at how the theory of evolution caused the church to fall away. Kingsley is writing to families and at least two generations grew up influenced by this popular book until its racist bits moved it, rightfully so, to the back of the classic literature shelf. It's funny (in a sad way) how ignorant "learned" people can sound talking about science contrary to reason.

One thing, ONE, actually intrigued me: the reference to the Cheshire Cat. I thought this was a creation of Carroll's, but it's not even a creation of Kingsley's. In fact, "grinning like a Cheshire Cat" had been a popular phrase for awhile and is believed to have it's roots in an 18th century cheese brand who used a smiling cat as its logo.

To top it all off, biographical research tells me he insulted Nathaniel Hawthorne. That's an immediate dismissal from me. He and Mark Twain (who insulted Jane Austen) can go pick their arrogant noses in a corner somewhere and let the masters remain.

I suppose if there's anything positive to be said on the story it's that Kingsley takes the side of the underdog in many conversations on social injustice. Many of the Water-Babies are like Tom---neglected and orphaned children who are given a better (after)life. But why would a Christian preacher mention Heaven and the Lord? Oh no...Kingsley brings them back to the primordial soup from which they began.

At least I crossed another book off my 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list. However, I think I could have died happily not wasting my time on this drivel.
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classyhomemaker | 44 andra recensioner | Dec 11, 2023 |
Had this read aloud to me and thoroughly enjoyed it.
 
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