James Barrie - Complete Works of J. M. Barrie

The Complete Works of

J. M. BARRIE

(1860–1937)

Contents

The Peter Pan Works

The Novels

AULD LICHT IDYLLS

BETTER DEAD

WHEN A MAN’S SINGLE

A WINDOW IN THRUMS

THE LITTLE MINISTER

SENTIMENTAL TOMMY

TOMMY AND GRIZEL

THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD

PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS

PETER AND WENDY

The Novellas

A TILLYLOSS SCANDAL

FAREWELL MISS JULIE LOGAN

The Short Story Collections

A HOLIDAY IN BED AND OTHER SKETCHES

TWO OF THEM

ECHOES OF THE WAR

The Short Stories

LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Plays

IBSEN’S GHOST

WALKER, LONDON

JANE ANNIE

THE PROFESSOR’S LOVE STORY

THE LITTLE MINISTER

THE WEDDING GUEST

QUALITY STREET

THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON

LITTLE MARY

PETER PAN

ALICE SIT-BY-THE-FIRE

WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS

OLD FRIENDS

WHEN WENDY GREW UP – AN AFTERTHOUGHT

PANTALOON

THE TWELVE-POUND LOOK

ROSALIND

THE WILL

HALF AN HOUR

THE NEW WORD

A KISS FOR CINDERELLA

SEVEN WOMEN

DER TAG (THE TRAGIC MAN)

THE OLD LADY SHOWS HER MEDALS

DEAR BRUTUS

A WELL-REMEMBERED VOICE

MARY ROSE

SHALL WE JOIN THE LADIES?

BARBARA’S WEDDING

THE BOY DAVID

The Non-Fiction

AN EDINBURGH ELEVEN

MY LADY NICOTINE

THE BOY CASTAWAYS OF BLACK LAKE ISLAND

CHARLES FROHMAN: A TRIBUTE

NEITHER DORKING NOR THE ABBEY

M’CONNACHIE AND J. M. B.

PREFACE TO THE YOUNG VISITERS

The Memoirs

MARGARET OGILVY

THE GREENWOOD HAT

© Delphi Classics 2013

Version 1

The Complete Works of

J. M. BARRIE

By Delphi Classics, 2013

Interested in classic children’s literature?

Then you’ll love these eBooks:

These comprehensive editions are beautifully illustrated with the original artwork of some of the greatest children stories ever told, as well as offering a dazzling array of Delphi bonus features. Now you can rediscover the magic of these eternal classics on your eReader!

www.delphiclassics.com

The Peter Pan Works

THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD

The character Peter Pan first appeared in the sub-plot of this 1902 novel.

PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS

An illustrated reprinting of the Peter Pan chapters in ‘The Little White Bird’.

PETER PAN

The 1904 stage play that provided the foundation of the Peter Pan story.

WHEN WENDY GREW UP – AN AFTERTHOUGHT

This 1908 epilogue was written to accompany the 1904 stage play.

PETER AND WENDY

The 1911 novelised account of the stage play.

THE GREENWOOD HAT

The posthumous memoir written, in part, to explain the origins of the Peter Pan story.

The Novels

9 Brechin Road, Kirriemuir, Angus — Barrie’s birthplace

The birthplace, c.1900

The Peter Pan statue at Barrie’s birthplace, which is now a museum dedicated to the author’s life and works.

The Peter Pan statue, in Barrie’s birth town, commemorating the author’s most famous creation

AULD LICHT IDYLLS

From a young age Barrie wished to pursue a career as an author, but was initially dissuaded by his family, who wished him to have a profession in the ministry. However, Barrie worked out a compromise, attending university at Edinburgh, but opting to study literature. An extremely introverted young man, Barrie was shy about his small size of five feet. Nevertheless, he succeeded in his studies, going on to graduate with his M.A. on April 21, 1882.

Following his graduation, Barrie worked for a year and a half as a staff journalist on the Nottingham Journal . He then returned to his beloved home town Kirriemuir, which he liked to call ‘Thrums’, where he wrote one of his mother’s stories about the town. When he submitted the piece to the St. James’s Gazette in London, the editor ‘liked that Scotch thing’ so much that Barrie was encouraged to write a series of similar pieces, serving as the basis for his first published books, Auld Licht Idylls (1888), A Window in Thrums (1890) and The Little Minister (1891). The stories concern the Auld Licht , a strict religious sect that the author’s grandfather had once belonged to. A majority of critics attacked these early works of Barrie, tending to ridicule them as sentimental and nostalgic depictions of a parochial Scotland far from the realities of the industrialised nineteenth century. Nevertheless, they were surprisingly a commercial success, being popular enough with readers to establish Barrie as a successful writer.

The first edition

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

THE SCHOOLHOUSE

CHAPTER II

THRUMS

CHAPTER III

THE AULD LICHT KIRK

CHAPTER IV

LADS AND LASSES

CHAPTER V

THE AULD LICHTS IN ARMS

CHAPTER VI

THE OLD DOMINIE

CHAPTER VII

CREE QUEERY AND MYSY DROLLY

CHAPTER VIII

THE COURTING OF T’NOWHEAD’S BELL

CHAPTER IX

DAVIT LUNAN’S POLITICAL REMINISCENCES

CHAPTER X

A VERY OLD FAMILY

CHAPTER XI

LITTLE RATHIE’S “BURAL”

CHAPTER XII

A LITERARY CLUB

The original title page

CHAPTER I

THE SCHOOLHOUSE

Early this morning I opened a window in my schoolhouse in the glen of Quharity, awakened by the shivering of a starving sparrow against the frosted glass. As the snowy sash creaked in my hand, he made off to the waterspout that suspends its “tangles” of ice over a gaping tank, and, rebounding from that, with a quiver of his little black breast, bobbed through the network of wire and joined a few of his fellows in a forlorn hop round the henhouse in search of food. Two days ago my hilarious bantam-cock, saucy to the last, my cheeriest companion, was found frozen in his own water-trough, the corn-saucer in three pieces by his side. Since then I have taken the hens into the house. At meal-times they litter the hearth with each other’s feathers; but for the most part they give little trouble, roosting on the rafters of the low-roofed kitchen among staves and fishingrods.

Another white blanket has been spread upon the glen since I looked out last night; for over the same wilderness of snow that has met my gaze for a week, I see the steading of Waster Lunny sunk deeper into the waste. The schoolhouse, I suppose, serves similarly as a snowmark for the people at the farm. Unless that is Waster Lunny’s grieve foddering the cattle in the snow, not a living thing is visible. The ghostlike hills that pen in the glen have ceased to echo to the sharp crack of the sportsman’s gun (so clear in the frosty air as to be a warning to every rabbit and partridge in the valley); and only giant Catlaw shows here and there a black ridge, rearing its head at the entrance to the glen and struggling ineffectually to cast off his shroud. Most wintry sign of all, I think as I close the window hastily, is the open farm-stile, its poles lying embedded in the snow where they were last flung by Waster Lunny’s herd. Through the still air comes from a distance a vibration as of a tuning-fork: a robin, perhaps, alighting on the wire of a broken fence.