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Quality Street: A ComedyJ. M. Barrie Quality Street: A Comedy ACT I THE BLUE AND WHITE ROOM The scene is the blue and white room in the house of the Misses Susan and Phoebe Throssel in Quality Street; and in this little country town there is a satisfaction about living in Quality Street which eve...

A Widow's Tale, and Other StoriesA Widow's Tale, and Other Stories INTRODUCTORY NOTE I remember well my first meeting with Mrs Oliphant a dozen years ago, how she "ordered" me to Windsor where she was then living (I like to think that it was an order, and obeyed as such by her very loyal subject)...

Neither Dorking nor the AbbeyJ. M. Barrie Neither Dorking nor the Abbey NOTE In England recently there died a great man – the greatest of his day. Immediately there arose much vain contention as to whether or no his dust should be given resting place among that of his peers in Westminster Abbey. ...

The Little MinisterBarrie J. M. James Matthew The Little Minister Chapter One. THE LOVE-LIGHT Long ago, in the days when our caged blackbirds never saw a king’s soldier without whistling impudently, “Come ower the water to Charlie,” a minister of Thrums was to be married, but something happened, ...

Удивительная история о сказочном мальчике, который не хотел взрослеть, давно поразила воображение детей и взрослых. Она началась с того, что однажды Питер Пэн влетел в окно детской в доме, где жили девочка Венди и двое ее братьев. Вместе с Питером они отправились на далекий волшебный остров. Там ...

Pekka Poikanen (Peter Pan)Pekka Poikanen (Peter Pan) KOTONA Olipa kerran – Lontoon suuressa kaupungissa – ihmeen hauska lastenkamari, jossa oli kolme pientä sänkyä kolmea lasta varten. Lasten nimet olivat Jukka Napoleon, Vendi Moira Angela ja Mikael, ja heidän vanhempansa olivat herra ja rouva Da...

A Holiday in Bed, and Other SketchesBarrie J. M. James Matthew A Holiday in Bed, and Other Sketches JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE James Matthew Barrie was born at Kirriemuir, Forfarshire, on May 9, 1860. Kirriemuir, as soberly stated by the Encyclopædia Britannica, is "a borough of barony and a market tow...

When a Man's Single: A Tale of Literary LifeJ. M. Barrie When a Man's Single: A Tale of Literary Life CHAPTER I ROB ANGUS IS NOT A FREE MAN 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 gr...

An Edinburgh Eleven: Pencil Portraits from College LifeBarrie J. M. James Matthew An Edinburgh Eleven: Pencil Portraits from College Life I. LORD ROSEBERY The first time I ever saw Lord Rosebery was in Edinburgh when I was a student, and I flung a clod of earth at him. He was a peer; those were m...

Der Tag: or, The Tragic ManBarrie James Matthew Der Tag; or, The Tragic Man "DER TAG" OR THE TRAGIC MAN A bare chamber lighted by a penny dip which casts shadows. On a hard chair by a table sits an Emperorin thought. To him come his Chancellor and an Officer. Chancellor. Your Imperial Majesty – O...