num_pages: 276
description: This book contains both better Dead and Auld Licht Idylls.Better Dead is the 1888 story by the famous author J. M. Barrie. The story involves a Scotsman that moves to London in pursuit of a better life but finds his life in London to be just as abysmal as it was back home. The story has hints of dry wit and satire for humor.Auld Licht Idylls is the second novel by the famous author and playwright J.M. Barrie. The novel concerns a religious sect of the titular name Auld Licht in the Scottish community in Thrums.Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
language: English
title: Auld Licht Idylls and Better Dead
titlecomplete: Auld Licht Idylls and Better Dead
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Ayer Co Pub