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Charles Kingsley
1819–1875
A Victorian writer and Anglican clergyman, he brought together social concern, adventure, history, and faith in books that reached a wide readership. He is still best known for lively works such as The Water-Babies and the historical novel Westward Ho!.
50 Audiobooks
Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
by Charles Kingsley
All Saints' Day and Other Sermons
by Charles Kingsley
Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth
by Charles Kingsley
At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies
by Charles Kingsley
Twenty-Five Village Sermons
by Charles Kingsley
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
by Charles Kingsley
Scientific Essays and Lectures
by Charles Kingsley
The Water-Babies
by Charles Kingsley
Town Geology
by Charles Kingsley
The Roman and the Teuton A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge
by Charles Kingsley
Historical Lectures and Essays
by Charles Kingsley
The Good News of God
by Charles Kingsley
David: Five Sermons
by Charles Kingsley
Alexandria and Her Schools Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh
by Charles Kingsley
Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time
by Charles Kingsley
Hereward, the Last of the English
by Charles Kingsley
Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
by Charles Kingsley
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
by Charles Kingsley
Madam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children
by Charles Kingsley
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
by Charles Kingsley
The Water of Life, and Other Sermons
by Charles Kingsley
Lectures Delivered in America in 1874
by Charles Kingsley
Froude's History of England
by Charles Kingsley
The Heroes; Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
by Charles Kingsley
The Saint's Tragedy
by Charles Kingsley
Two Years Ago, Volume II.
by Charles Kingsley
Town and Country Sermons
by Charles Kingsley
Out of the deep : Words for the sorrowful
by Charles Kingsley
The Ancien Régime
by Charles Kingsley
The Hermits
by Charles Kingsley
Andromeda, and Other Poems
by Charles Kingsley
The Water-Babies
by Charles Kingsley
Yeast: a Problem
by Charles Kingsley
Prose Idylls, New and Old
by Charles Kingsley
Sermons on National Subjects
by Charles Kingsley
Women and Politics
by Charles Kingsley
Plays and Puritans
by Charles Kingsley
Discipline and Other Sermons
by Charles Kingsley
Health and Education
by Charles Kingsley
Hypatia, eli Uusia vihollisia vanhassa hahmossa
by Charles Kingsley
True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries
by Charles Kingsley
Two Years Ago, Volume I
by Charles Kingsley
Daily Thoughts: selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife
by Charles Kingsley
Syvyydestä : Sanoja murheellisille
by Charles Kingsley
The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons
by Charles Kingsley
Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays
by Charles Kingsley
Phaethon: Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers
by Charles Kingsley
Sermons for the Times
by Charles Kingsley
Westminster Sermons with a Preface
by Charles Kingsley
Uroita: Kreikkalaisia sankaritaruja
by Charles Kingsley
About the author
Born in Devon in 1819, he became an Anglican priest and spent much of his working life at Eversley in Hampshire. Alongside his church duties, he wrote novels, poems, sermons, and essays, building a reputation as an energetic public voice in Victorian England.
His fiction ranged widely. He wrote social novels such as Yeast and Alton Locke, the popular children's fantasy The Water-Babies, and the historical adventure Westward Ho!. He was also linked with Christian socialism and is often associated with the idea of "muscular Christianity," reflecting his belief that moral life, practical action, and physical vigor belonged together.
What makes him interesting now is the mix of earnestness and imagination in his work. He cared deeply about religion, education, nature, and the condition of ordinary people, and that concern gives even his most fantastical writing a strong sense of purpose.