Kingsley, Charles 1819-1875

Overview

Works:	1,795 works in 7,844 publications in 9 languages and 71,774 library holdings
Roles:	Editor, Lyricist, Bibliographic antecedent, Dedicatee, Author of introduction, Arranger, Other
Classifications:	PR4842, 823.8

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1820 |

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Publications about Charles Kingsley

Publications by Charles Kingsley

Publications by Charles Kingsley, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley : his letters and memories of his life by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
The beast and the monk : a life of Charles Kingsley by Susan Chitty ( Book )
The apostle of the flesh a critical life of Charles Kingsley by J. M. I Klaver ( )
Canon Charles Kingsley, a biography by Una Pope-Hennessy ( Book )
Freethinkers of the nineteenth century by Janet E Courtney ( Book )

Charles Kingsley by Larry K Uffelman ( Book )
Charles Kingsley : the lion of Eversley by Brenda Colloms ( Book )
The dust of combat; a life of Charles Kingsley by Robert Bernard Martin ( Book )
Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875 by Margaret Farrand Thorp ( Book )
The sinews of the spirit : the ideal of Christian manliness in Victorian literature and religious thought by Norman Vance ( Book )
Charles Kingsley and the Christian social movement by Charles William Stubbs ( Book )
Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley ( Book )
The age of eclecticism : literature and culture in Britain, 1815-1885 by Christine Bolus-Reichert ( Book )
Charles Kingsley and his ideas by Guy Kendall ( Book )
Wordsworth and the Coleridges : with other memories, literary and political by Ellis Yarnall ( Book )
Alton Locke, tailor and poet : an autobiography by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
Charles Kingsley, a reference guide by Styron Harris ( Book )
Metaphors of change in the language of nineteenth-century fiction : Scott, Gaskell, and Kingsley by Megan Perigoe Stitt ( )
Charles Kingsley by Stanley E Baldwin ( Book )
Darwin and the memory of the human : evolution, savages, and South America by Cannon Schmitt ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Charles Kingsley

The water-babies by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
414 editions published between 1800 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 4,543 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby

Westward ho! : or, The voyage 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 ( Book )
360 editions published between 1855 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,559 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This vibrant novel captures the daring spirit of hte adventurers who shaold with Sir Francis Drake

Westward ho! by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
228 editions published between 1855 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 3,114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Enormously popular when published, Westward ho! is the saga of Elizabethan sailors from the Devonshire coast who sail off into the unknown to found an empire for their queen. Moving at a breathless pace from start to finish, the story of the sailors' adventures and conflicts with the Spanish make it an exhilarating read

The water-babies : a fairy-tale for a land-baby by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
292 editions published between 1800 and 2013 in English and German and held by 2,842 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby

The heroes by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
118 editions published between 900 and 2010 in English and Spanish and held by 2,603 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Stories based on the Greek myths about Perseus, Jason and the Argonauts, Theseus, and the twelve labors of Heracles

The heroes; Greek fairy tales by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
305 editions published between 1855 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 2,055 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Stories based on the Greek myths about Perseus, Jason and the Argonauts, Theseus, and the twelve labors of Heracles

Hypatia; or, New foes with an old face by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
274 editions published between 1800 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,982 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One of Charles Kingsley's most popular novels, Hypatia is a fictionalized account of the life and murder of Hypatia, once considered the greatest living mathematician in the Greco-Roman world. Hypatia focuses on the religious issues surrounding her murder, and is a brilliant yet dark portrait of the passing of old faiths in Greece and Rome

Alton Locke, tailor and poet : an autobiography by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
191 editions published between 1187 and 2006 in English and held by 1,891 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alton Locke is the story of a young tailor-boy who has instincts and aspirations beyond the normal expectations of his working-class background. He is intensely patriotic and has ambitions to be a poet. In the course of the narrative, Alton Locke loves and struggles in vain. Physically, he is a weak man, but is able to encompass all the best emotions, along with vain longings, wild hopes, and a righteous indignation at the plight of his contemporaries. He joins the Chartist movement because he can find no better vehicle by which to improve the lot of the working class, experiencing a sense of devastation at its apparent failure. Utterly broken in spirit, Alton Locke sails for America to seek a new life there; however, he barely reaches the shore of the New World before he dies

Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
239 editions published between 1800 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Hereward was a teenage warrior from the Fens of Anglia, the son of Earl Leofric and Lady Godiva. He killed and killed until he was exiled, where he became a mercenary suppressing the Dutch on behalf of Norman overlords. When they invaded England, he spent many years fighting a guerilla war against them. But he was unfaithful to his wife, and that fatal flaw meant that he made a peace that his many enemies were bound to break

Glaucus or the wonders of the shore by Charles Kingsley ( )
54 editions published between 1855 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,702 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Historical lectures and essays by Charles Kingsley ( )
28 editions published between 1880 and 2006 in English and held by 1,503 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sanitary and social lectures and essays by Charles Kingsley ( )
24 editions published between 1880 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,398 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Madam how and lady why by Charles Kingsley ( )
15 editions published between 1869 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Explains some basic "hows and whys" in natural history and geology

Alexandria and her schools by Charles Kingsley ( )
8 editions published between 2001 and 2008 in English and held by 1,179 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The ancient regime by Charles Kingsley ( )
5 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in English and Turkish and held by 1,158 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Two years ago by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
170 editions published between 1857 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,150 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Committed to improving social conditions for the poor, author and clergyman Charles Kingsley worked tirelessly on behalf of the needy, including teaching the importance of proper hygiene during a cholera epidemic in London. His work influenced his writing, as evidenced in this engrossing novel about how poor sanitary conditions and public apathy cause an outbreak of cholera

Poems by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
113 editions published between 1848 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,110 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Yeast; a problem by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
137 editions published between 1851 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 1,092 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A political and social novel commenting on Roman Catholicism and the Oxford Movement, on celibacy, the game laws, bad landlords and bad sanitation, and on the whole social system insofar as it kept England's agricultural labourer class in poverty

Apologia pro vita sua by John Henry Newman ( Book )
18 editions published between 1864 and 1950 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,083 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents John Henry Newman's autobiographical response to a public attack on his personal integrity by novelist Charles Kingsley in 1863, who was critical and suspicious of Newman's abandonment of Anglicanism for the Church of Rome, and includes a defense of Catholicism

Hypatia by Charles Kingsley ( Book )
100 editions published between 1853 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 833 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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