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A Window in Thrums: Auld Licht Idylls (Classic Reprint)
A Window in Thrums Auld Licht Idylls - Classic Reprint Author:J. M. Barrie WHEN the English publishers read »4 A Window in Thrums" in manuscript they thought it unbearably sad and begged me to alter the end. They warned me that the public do not like sad books. Well, the older I grow and the sadder trie things I see, the more do I wish my books to be bright and hopeful, but an author may not always interfere with his s... more »tory, and if I had altered the end of "A Window in Thrums" I think I should never have had any more respect for myself. It is a sadder book to me than it can ever be to anyone else. I see Jess at her window looking for the son who never came back as no other can see her, and I knew that unless I brought him back in time the book would be a pain to me all my days, but the thing had to be done.
I think there are soft-hearted readers here and there who will be glad to know that there never was any Jess. There is a little house still standing at the top of the brae which can be identified as her house, I chose it for her though I was never in it
Table of Contents
I The House on the Brae 1; II On the Track of the Minister 9; III Preparing to Receive Company 16; IV Waiting for the Doctor 22; V A Humorist on His Calling GO; VI Dead This Twenty Years 39 -; VII The Statement op Tibbie Birse 49; Vni A Cloak With Beads 56; IX The Power of Beauty 66; X A Magnum Opus 72; XI The Ghost Cradle 78; XII The Tragedy of a Wife67; XIII Making the Best of It 94; XIV Visitors at the Manse 101; XV How Gavin Birse Put It to Mag; Lownie109; XVI The Son From London117; XVII A Home for Geniuses130; XVIII Leeby and Jamie136; XIX A Tale of a Glove146; XX The Last Night155; XXI Jess Left Alone163; XXII Jamie's ¿¿¿¿-comino170; AULD LICHT IDYLLS; I The Schoolhouse181; ¿ Thrums188; III The Auld Licht Kirk226; IV Lads and Lasses252; V The Auld Lichts in Arms267; VI The Old Dominie279; VII Cree Queert and Mysy Drolly , , 290; VIII The Courting of T'nowhead's Bell ,« less