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Auld Licht Idylls, by J. M. Barrie
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Title: Auld Licht Idylls
Author: J. M. Barrie
Release Date: March 27, 2007 [eBook #20918]
Language: English
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Transcriber's note:
The volume from which this e-book was created contained two books, Auld Licht Idylls and Better Dead. The Introduction discusses both.
The Novels, Tales and Sketches of J. M. Barrie
AULD LICHT IDYLLS
[Frontispiece: Photograph of J. M. Barrie]
Published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons 1896
Author's Edition Copyright, 1896, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
TO
FREDERICK GREENWOOD
INTRODUCTION
This is the only American edition of my books produced with my sanction, and I have special reasons for thanking Messrs. Scribner for its publication; they let it be seen, by this edition, what are my books, for I know not how many volumes purporting t