Window in Thrums
J.M. Barrie
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Evocative listening conveying scenes from Scottish Life - from the world-famous author of Peter Pan
Window in Thrums - the story of the “untrue son” - is about the fictional village of Thrums. The story and setting is widely acknowledged to be modelled on Barrie’s home town of Kirriemuir. It was one of his earlier works which along with Auld Licht Idylls, also published in 1889, contains many memorable sketches and illuminations of Scottish life at the time, and paved the way for Barrie’s great career.
J.M. Barrie
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. 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 theatre. From 1930 until his death he was chancellor of the University of Edinburgh.