Auld Licht Idylls by J. M. Barrie is a novel about life in late 19th century small town Scotland. The whole set of stories revolves around the town of Thrums and more especially the members of one of the four churches in that community. The Auld Licht Kirk happens to be more hard core Calvinist's th

Charming selection of stories set in the Scottish town of Thrums. Sort of a companion book to 'A Window in Thrums' by the same author.

Great book. I've read this 4 or 5 times. Hugely entertaining. A few of the Scotchisms take some getting used to.
(it's actually J. M. Barrie, not M. J., the author of Peter Pan.)

Hum. This is a hard one to review. I'll admit while I was reading this I was charmed, bored, confused, laughed, lost, interested, and mildly to hugely entertained. That because this book is charming, confusing, humorous, baffling, interesting, and boring. It's not so much that the author (J.M. Barri

Remarkable for 1800's Scots dialect of an isolated one-room house school teacher surviving on a tiny stipend from the locals but under threat of review and poor attendance, one can sense the protagonist is Barrie himself. The rambling narrative resembles a diary of local life in Thrums, a weavers to

Most people know J.M. Barrie from his book Peter Pan. Not many know much else about him, that he was Scottish and wrote a wonderful little book called Auld Licht Idylls. This book was published in America once and good luck finding a copy.

Auld Licht Idylls, is a series of short stories about a small

Stories about the "Auld Licht" in Thrums

I am working my way through James Barrie's Novels, Tales and Sketches. This is a collection of what were short stories in his early career, generally centered around a small village in Scotland. He himself said the stories, and the book, were not worthy of the binding, and belonged at the bottom of