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The Water-Babies

by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, first published in its entirety in 1863. Though some of the author’s opinions are very dated now, the journey of a little chimney-sweep water-baby through rivers and storms, under sea and over iceberg, is still a classic, wonderful children’s adventure.

Summary by Cori Samuel. Music from Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture at musopen.org.

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia - Charles Kingsley
• Wikipedia - The Water-Babies
• LibriVox’s The Water-Babies Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (204 MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes · Chapter-a-day

Total running time: 7:05:29
Read by Cori Samuel

mp3 and ogg files

• 01 Chapter 1, Part 1 - 00:26:20
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• 02 Chapter 1, Part 2 - 00:26:00
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• 03 Chapter 2, Part 1 - 00:20:47
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• 04 Chapter 2, Part 2 - 00:28:42
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• 05 Chapter 3, Part 1 - 00:25:47
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• 06 Chapter 3, Part 2 - 00:28:54
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• 07 Chapter 4, Part 1 - 00:31:03
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• 08 Chapter 4, Part 2 - 00:28:24
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• 09 Chapter 5, Part 1 - 00:24:50
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• 10 Chapter 5, Part 2 - 00:22:10
  [mp3@64kbps - 10.6MB]
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• 11 Chapter 6, Part 1 - 00:17:55
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• 12 Chapter 6, Part 2 - 00:21:43
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• 13 Chapter 7, Part 1 - 00:23:33
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• 14 Chapter 7, Part 2 - 00:27:20
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• 15 Chapter 8, Part 1 - 00:31:28
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• 16 Chapter 8, Part 2 - 00:36:24
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• 17 Moral - 00:04:09
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Cataloged on September 11, 2007