The Essential Charles Kingsley Collection

Charles Kingsley

Mar 2013 · eBookIt.com

About this ebook

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Charles Kingsley:
All Saints' Day and Other Sermons
Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
The Ancien Regime
Andromeda and Other Poems
At Last
Daily Thoughts
David
Discipline and Other Sermons
Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore
The Good News of God
The Gospel of the Pentateuch
Health and Education
Hereward, The Last of the English
The Hermits
The Heroes
Historical Lectures and Essays
Hypatia
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
Madam How and Lady Why
Out of the Deep
Phaethon
Plays and Puritans
Prose Idylls
The Roman and the Teuton
The Saint's Tragedy
Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays
Scientific Essays and Lectures
Sermons for the Times
Sermons on National Subjects
Sir Walter Raleigh and his Time
Town and Country Sermons
Town Geology
True Words for Brave Men
Twenty-Five Village Sermons
Two Years Ago, Volume I
Two Years Ago, Volume II.
The Water-Babies
The Water of Life and Other Sermons
Westminster Sermons
Yeast: A Problem

About the author

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 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.