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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF CHARLES KINGSLEY! Complete in 28 -volumes. Printed in 1884. Bound in the original leather bindings. Intricately gilded calf leather. Printed in 1884 . This is an absolutely gorgeous set. High quality leather binding with raised hubs and intricate gilded floral detailing. This set is over 140 years old. Complete in 28 -volumes, as issued, as is standard for this set , and is inclusive of all of Kingsley's works. The half title pages are numbered 1 - 28. The final volume is his final work Westminster Sermons printed the year before he died. All his works are present. This set is complete. Bound in quality leather bindings. These are the original bindings. Marbled end papers. Printed on quality paper . In Very Good condition overall with some specific abrasion and wear to the bindings. The leather is very fresh and supple. The hinges are all strongly attached with some light abrasion and scuffing and extremity starting to a few hinges . Some brown paper stuck to the boards as shown in the pictures. Printed on quality paper. This is a gorgeous and highly giftable set. In VERY GOOD condition. Very fresh and well-preserved. This would make an excellent gift and/or addition to any fine library. All books are individually wrapped and professionally padded. Charles Kingsley's Works. Volumes I to XXVIII. Leather spine with cloth boards - 1884 by Charles Kingsley Gilded calf spine with black and green title plates, gilt banding, title and decoration on the spine. Purple cloth boards. All edges marbled to match end papers. This set is complete with all 28 volumes. Individual book titles are - Poems; Yeast; Alton Locke; Hypatia; Glaucus; Westward Ho; The Heroes; Two Years Ago; The Water Babies; The Roman and the Tuton; Herward the Wake; Village Sermons and Town and Country Sermons; The Hermits; Madam How and Lady Why; At Last; Prose Idylls; Plays and Puritans; Historical Lectures and Essays; Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays; Scientific Lectures and Essays; Literary and General Lectures and Essays; Sermons on National Subjects; The Good News of God; The Water of Life; Gospel of the Pentateuch and David; Discipline; Westminster Sermons. 28 Fantastic Volumes, a glorious collection. This set is regarded as the best full collection of his work. Charles entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1838, and graduated in 1842. He chose to pursue a ministry in the church. From 1844, he was rector of Eversley in Hampshire. In 1869 Kingsley resigned his Cambridge professorship and, from 1870 to 1873, was a canonof Chester Cathedral. In 1873 he was made a canon of Westminster Abbey.[5] Kingsley died in 1875 and was buried in St Mary's Churchyard in Eversley. Kingsley sat on the 1866 Edward Eyre Defence Committee along with Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, John Tyndall, and Alfred Tennyson, where he supported Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre's brutal suppression of the Morant Bay Rebellion against the Jamaica Committee. o believe that When a heated dispute lasting three years developed over human evolution, Kingsley gently satirised the debate, known as the Great Hippocampus Question, as the "Great Hippopotamus Question". Kingsley's concern for social reform is illustrated in his classic, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863), a tale about a chimney sweep, which retained its popularity well into the 20th century. The story mentions the main protagonists in the scientific debate over human origins, rearranging his earlier satire as the "great hippopotamus test". The book won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963. His chief power as a novelist lay in his descriptive faculties. The descriptions of South American scenery in Westward Ho!, of the Egyptian desert in Hypatia, of the North Devon scenery in Two Years Ago, are brilliant; and the American scenery is even more vividly and more truthfully described when he had seen it only by the eye of his imagination than in his work At Last, which was written afte.
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