The Heroes de Charles Kingsley

The Heroes

Charles Kingsley

These three greek legends were been retold by the incomparable Charles Kingsley for his own children, and now you can share them with yours.
Follow along as Perseus with his winged sandals travels the world to defeat the Gorgon Medusa, and saves Andromeda from the sea monster Cretus...
Join the Argonauts who face many trials as they travel with Jason to find the Golden Fleece...
Accompany Theseus as he enters the labyrinth to meet the terrible Minotaur...
This edition is presented complete and unabridged with 56 beautiful illustrations.

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Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university lecturer, a social reformer, a historian, a novelist, and a poet. He lived from 12 June 1819 to 23 January 1875. He is known for his involvement in Christian socialism, the working men's college, and the establishment of labor cooperatives, which were unsuccessful but inspired later labor reforms. He was Charles Darwin's friend and correspondent. The eldest child of the Reverend Charles Kingsley and his wife, Mary Lucas Kingsley, Kingsley was born in Holne, Devon. Both his sister Charlotte Chanter (1828-1882) and brother Henry Kingsley (1830-1876) were writers. He was the uncle of the explorer and scientist Mary Kingsley and the father of the novelist Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852-1931). (1862-1900). The early years of Charles Kingsley were spent in Barnack, Northamptonshire, and Clovelly, Devon, where his father served as Curate from 1826 to 1832 and Rector from 1832 to 1836. Before attending King's College London and the University of Cambridge, he received his education at Bristol Grammar School and Helston Grammar School. Charles enrolled in Cambridge's Magdalene College in 1838 and earned his degree there in 1842.