The Collected Works of James Matthew Barrie E-Book

James Matthew Barrie

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

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Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 7098 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Better Dead • A Window in Thrums • Alice Sit-By-The-Fire • The Little Minister • When a Man's Single • A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches • Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey • An Edinburgh Eleven • "Der Tag" • Auld Licht Idyls • JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE, • A HOLIDAY IN BED, • LIFE IN A COUNTRY MANSE, • LIFE IN A COUNTRY MANSE—A WEDDING IN A SMIDDY, • A POWERFUL DRUG, • EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR, • GRETNA GREEN REVISITED, • MY FAVORITE AUTHORESS, • THE CAPTAIN OF THE SCHOOL, • THOUGHTFUL BOYS MAKE THOUGHTFUL MEN, • IT, • TO THE INFLUENZA, • FOUR-IN-HAND NOVELISTS, • RULES ON CARVING, • ON RUNNING AFTER A HAT, • LORD ROSEBERY, • PROFESSOR MASSON, • PROFESSOR BLACKIE, • PROFESSOR CALDERWOOD, • PROFESSOR TAIT, • PROFESSOR FRASER, • PROFESSOR CHRYSTAL, • PROFESSOR SELLAR, • MR. JOSEPH THOMSON, • ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, • REV. WALTER C. SMITH, D.D. . etc.

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Table of Contents

PETER PAN

PETER AND WENDY

Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH

Chapter 2 THE SHADOW

Chapter 3 COME AWAY, COME AWAY!

Chapter 4 THE FLIGHT

Chapter 5 THE ISLAND COME TRUE

Chapter 6 THE LITTLE HOUSE

Chapter 7 THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND

Chapter 8 THE MERMAIDS' LAGOON

Chapter 9 THE NEVER BIRD

Chapter 10 THE HAPPY HOME

Chapter 11 WENDY'S STORY

Chapter 12 THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF

Chapter 13 DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?

Chapter 14 THE PIRATE SHIP

Chapter 15 "HOOK OR ME THIS TIME"

Chapter 16 THE RETURN HOME

Chapter 17 WHEN WENDY GREW UP

PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS

Peter Pan

The Thrush's Nest

The Little House

Lock-out Time

A WINDOW IN THRUMS

INTRODUCTION

THE HOUSE ON THE BRAE

The square foot of glass where Jess sat in her chair and looked down the brae.

ON THE TRACK OF THE MINISTER

PREPARING TO RECEIVE COMPANY

WAITING FOR THE DOCTOR

A HUMORIST ON HIS CALLING

DEAD THIS TWENTY YEARS

THE STATEMENT OF TIBBIE BIRSE

A CLOAK WITH BEADS

THE POWER OF BEAUTY

A MAGNUM OPUS

THE GHOST CRADLE

THE TRAGEDY OF A WIFE

MAKING THE BEST OF IT

VISITORS AT THE MANSE.

HOW GAVIN BIRSE PUT IT TO MAG LOWNIE

THE SON FROM LONDON

A HOME FOR GENIUSES

LEEBY AND JAMIE

A TALE OF A GLOVE

THE LAST NIGHT

JESS LEFT ALONE

JAMIE'S HOME-COMING

WHEN A MAN'S SINGLE

TOMMY AND GRIZEL

SENTIMENTAL TOMMY

PETER AND WENDY

NEITHER DORKING NOR THE ABBEY

NEITHER DORKING NOR THE ABBEY

MY LADY NICOTINE

MARGARET OGILVY

THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD OR ADVENTURES IN KENSINGTON GARDENS

The Little Minister

NOTE

A Holiday in Bed

And other Sketches.

JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE.

A HOLIDAY IN BED.

LIFE IN A COUNTRY MANSE.

LIFE IN A COUNTRY MANSE. A WEDDING IN A SMIDDY.

A POWERFUL DRUG. (NO HOUSEHOLD SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT.)

EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR.

GRETNA GREEN REVISITED.

MY FAVORITE AUTHORESS.

THE CAPTAIN OF THE SCHOOL.

THOUGHTFUL BOYS MAKE THOUGHTFUL MEN.

IT.

TO THE INFLUENZA.

FOUR-IN-HAND NOVELISTS.

RULES FOR CARVING.

ON RUNNING AFTER A HAT.

AN EDINBURGH ELEVEN

LORD ROSEBERY.

PROFESSOR MASSON.

PROFESSOR JOHN STUART BLACKIE.

PROFESSOR CALDERWOOD.

PROFESSOR TAIT.

PROFESSOR CAMPBELL FRASER.

PROFESSOR CHRYSTAL.

PROFESSOR SELLAR.

MR. JOSEPH THOMSON.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

REV. WALTER C. SMITH, D.D.

COURAGE

HODDER AND STOUGHTON LIMITED TORONTO

BETTER DEAD

AULD LICHT IDYLLS

STORIES BY ENGLISH AUTHORS

LONDON

Contents

THE INCONSIDERATE WAITER, By J. M. BARRIE

THE BLACK POODLE, By F. Anstey

THAT BRUTE SIMMONS, By Arthur Morrison

A ROSE OF THE GHETTO, By Israel Zangwill

AN IDYL OF LONDON, By Beatrice Harraden

THE OMNIBUS, By Quiller-Couch

THE HIRED BABY, By Marie Corelli

STORIES BY ENGLISH AUTHORS

SCOTLAND

Contents

THE COURTING OF T'NOWHEAD'S BELL, By J. M. Barrie

"THE HEATHER LINTIE", By S. R. Crockett

A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL, By Ian Maclaren

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WANDERING WILLIE'S TALE, By Sir Walter Scott

THE GLENMUTCHKIN RAILWAY, By Professor Aytoun

THRAWN JANET, By Robert Louis Stevenson

THE YOUNG VISITERS OR, MR SALTEENA'S PLAN

PREFACE

CONTENTS

The Young Visiters

CHAPTER 1

QUITE A YOUNG GIRL

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THE FIRST PAGE OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT

CHAPTER 2

STARTING GAILY

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CHAPTER 3

THE FIRST EVENING

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CHAPTER 4

MR SALTEENAS PLAN

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CHAPTER 5

THE CRYSTAL PALACE

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CHAPTER 6

HIGH LIFE

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CHAPTER 7

BERNARDS IDEAR

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CHAPTER 8

A GAY CALL

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CHAPTER 9

A PROPOSALE

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CHAPTER 10

PREPARING FOR THE FRAY

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CHAPTER 11

THE WEDDING

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CHAPTER 12

HOW IT ENDED

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WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

SYBIL. ..........

ACT IV

QUALITY STREET

A COMEDY

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK ::::::::: 1923

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY J. M. BARRIE Printed in the United States of America

All rights reserved under the International Copyright Act. Performance forbidden and right of representation reserved. Application for the right of performing this play must be made to Charles Frohman, Inc., Empire Theatre, New York.

THE WORKS OF J. M. BARRIE.

NOVELS, STORIES, AND SKETCHES. Uniform Edition.

PLAYS. Uniform Edition.

Others in Preparation. INDIVIDUAL EDITIONS.

ACT I ——— ACT II ——— ACT III ——— ACT IV

ACT I

THE BLUE AND WHITE ROOM

ACT II

THE SCHOOL

ACT III

THE BALL

ACT IV

THE BLUE AND WHITE ROOM

ECHOES OF THE WAR

CONTENTS

THE OLD LADY SHOWS HER MEDALS

THE NEW WORD

BARBARA'S WEDDING

A WELL-REMEMBERED VOICE

"DER TAG"

DEAR BRUTUS

ACT I ACT II ACT III

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

CONTEMPORARY ONE-ACT PLAYS

PREFACE

CONTEMPORARY ONE-ACT PLAYS

INTRODUCTION THE ONE-ACT PLAY AS A SPECIFIC DRAMATIC TYPE

THE PROPER APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE ONE-ACT PLAY

DRAMATIC ANALYSIS AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE ONE-ACT PLAY

I. The Theme of the One-Act Play

II. The Technic of the One-Act Play

THE TWELVE-POUND LOOK BY SIR JAMES M. BARRIE

THE TWELVE-POUND LOOK[A]

TRADITION BY GEORGE MIDDLETON

TRADITION[B]

THE EXCHANGE BY ALTHEA THURSTON

THE EXCHANGE[C]

SCENE I

SCENE II

SAM AVERAGE BY PERCY MACKAYE

SAM AVERAGE[D]

HYACINTH HALVEY BY LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY

HYACINTH HALVEY

THE GAZING GLOBE BY EUGENE PILLOT

THE GAZING GLOBE[F]

THE BOOR BY ANTON TCHEKOV

THE BOOR

THE LAST STRAW BY BOSWORTH CROCKER

THE LAST STRAW[G]

MANIKIN AND MINIKIN (A Bisque-Play) BY ALFRED KREYMBORG

MANIKIN AND MINIKIN (A BISQUE-PLAY)

WHITE DRESSES(A Tragedy of Negro Life) BY PAUL GREENE

WHITE DRESSES

MOONSHINE BY ARTHUR HOPKINS

MOONSHINE

MODESTY BY PAUL HERVIEU

MODESTY

THE DEACON'S HAT BY JEANNETTE MARKS

THE DEACON'S HAT[I]

WHERE BUT IN AMERICA BY OSCAR M. WOLFF

WHERE BUT IN AMERICA [J]

A DOLLARBY DAVID PINSKI

A DOLLAR

THE DIABOLICAL CIRCLE BY BEULAH BORNSTEAD

THE DIABOLICAL CIRCLE

THE FAR-AWAY PRINCESS BY HERMANN SUDERMANN

THE FAR-AWAY PRINCESS[L]

THE STRONGER BY AUGUST STRINDBERG

THE STRONGER[M]

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

ALICE SIT-BY-THE-FIRE

THE PLAYS OF J. M. BARRIE

By J. M. Barrie

I

II

III

THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON

From The Plays Of J. M. Barrie

A COMEDY

Contents

ACT I. AT LOAM HOUSE, MAYFAIR

ACT II. THE ISLAND

ACT III. THE HAPPY HOME

ACT IV. THE OTHER ISLAND

PETER PAN

PETER AND WENDY

By J. M. Barrie

James Matthew Barrie

Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

Of course they lived at 14 [their house number on their street], and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.

The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her. He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door.

Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.

Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been totting up. They were Mrs. Darling's guesses.

Wendy came first, then John, then Michael.

For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed. Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling's bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly. She wanted to risk it, come what might, but that was not his way; his way was with a pencil and a piece of paper, and if she confused him with suggestions he had to begin at the beginning again.

"Now don't interrupt," he would beg of her.

"I have one pound seventeen here, and two and six at the office; I can cut off my coffee at the office, say ten shillings, making two nine and six, with your eighteen and three makes three nine seven, with five naught naught in my cheque-book makes eight nine seven—who is that moving?—eight nine seven, dot and carry seven—don't speak, my own—and the pound you lent to that man who came to the door—quiet, child—dot and carry child—there, you've done it!—did I say nine nine seven? yes, I said nine nine seven; the question is, can we try it for a year on nine nine seven?"

"Of course we can, George," she cried. But she was prejudiced in Wendy's favour, and he was really the grander character of the two.

"Remember mumps," he warned her almost threateningly, and off he went again. "Mumps one pound, that is what I have put down, but I daresay it will be more like thirty shillings—don't speak—measles one five, German measles half a guinea, makes two fifteen six—don't waggle your finger—whooping-cough, say fifteen shillings"—and so on it went, and it added up differently each time; but at last Wendy just got through, with mumps reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles treated as one.

There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a narrower squeak; but both were kept, and soon, you might have seen the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom's Kindergarten school, accompanied by their nurse.

Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse. How thorough she was at bath-time, and up at any moment of the night if one of her charges made the slightest cry. Of course her kennel was in the nursery. She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking around your throat. She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs, and so on. It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to school, walking sedately by their side when they were well behaved, and butting them back into line if they strayed. On John's footer [in England soccer was called football, "footer" for short] days she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain. There is a room in the basement of Miss Fulsom's school where the nurses wait. They sat on forms, while Nana lay on the floor, but that was the only difference. They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk. She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs. Darling's friends, but if they did come she first whipped off Michael's pinafore and put him into the one with blue braiding, and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash at John's hair.