Benjamin Charles eBooks
eBooks editi da Benjamin Charles
A window in Thrums. E-book. Formato Mobipocket
James Matthew Barrie
edizioni Benjamin Charles collana , 2019
When the English publishers read “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 the things I see, the more do I wish my books to be bright and hopeful, but an author may not...
Auld licht idylls. E-book. Formato Mobipocket
J.m.barrie
edizioni Benjamin Charles collana , 2019
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...
Better Dead. E-book. Formato EPUB
J.m.barrie
edizioni Benjamin Charles collana , 2019
After the success of Auld Lichts, a collection of nostalgic sketches of his home town, Barrie published his first novel written in 1887, Better Dead, privately and at his own expense in 1888 and it failed to sell. It was published in the shape of a little shilling book with a coloured cover, suggestive of a ‘shilling...
When a man's single. E-book. Formato EPUB
James M. Barrie
edizioni Benjamin Charles collana , 2019
One still Saturday afternoon some years ago a child pulled herself through a small window into a kitchen in the kirk-wynd of Thrums. She came from the old graveyard, whose only outlet, when the parish church gate is locked, is the windows of the wynd houses that hoop it round. Squatting on a three-legged...