- Fiction, general, Children's fiction, Fairy tales, Fiction, fantasy, general
The adventures of Tim, a sooty chimney sweep (with a longing to be clean) who is stolen by fairies and turned into a waterboy.
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Classical in form, earnest, warm and effortless.
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- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Charles Kingsley
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 238
- Publisher
- Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1st World Publishing, Pan Macmillan
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781841352367
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About Charles Kingsley · 1819–1875
Church of England priest, novelist, professor, historian (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley>more</a>).
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