- Paperback: 260 pages
- Publisher: Wildside Press (30 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1434475689
- ISBN-13: 978-1434475688
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,173,633 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A Window in Thrums – a fictional sketch of Scottish life - is one of several novels about the fictional village of Thrums, said to be modeled on Barrie's home town of Kirriemuir.
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Barrie was a Scottish playwright and novelist. He is best remembered for his play Peter Pan, a supernatural fantasy about a boy who refused to grow up. The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889), contain fictional sketches of Scottish life. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theater From 1930 until his death he was chancellor of the University of Edinburgh.
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