Sir Gibbie
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Sir Gibbie

A Mute Street Child and His Unknown Title

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eBook - ePub

Sir Gibbie

A Mute Street Child and His Unknown Title

About this book

A mute boy from the Aberdeen wynds, who owns nothing and is beaten by everyone, walks out of the city and up into the hill farms, where he is taken for an idiot and does more good than any preacher in the book. MacDonald wrote it in 1879 in his own Scots, and his publishers fought him over the dialect for the whole of his career. Gibbie's silence is the device: nobody can argue with him, so they argue with themselves. Fifty-eight plates of painting by David Wilkie and Luke Fildes, ranging across 1725 to 1918, catch the street children, farmhands, and quiet domestic scenes that give Gibbie's wordless world its faces.

Information

Publisher
Aeneas Press
Year
2026
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9785486173318
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Chapter I. The Earring
  4. Chapter II. Sir George
  5. Chapter III. Mistress Croale
  6. Chapter IV. The Parlour
  7. Chapter V. Gibbie’s Calling
  8. Chapter VI. A Sunday at Home
  9. Chapter VII. The Town-Sparrow
  10. Chapter VIII. Sambo
  11. Chapter IX. Adrift
  12. Chapter X. The Barn
  13. Chapter XI. Janet
  14. Chapter XII. Glashgar
  15. Chapter XIII. The Ceiling
  16. Chapter XIV. Hornie
  17. Chapter XV. Donal Grant
  18. Chapter XVI. Apprenticeship
  19. Chapter XVII. Secret Service
  20. Chapter XVIII. The Broonie
  21. Chapter XIX. The Laird
  22. Chapter XX. The Ambush
  23. Chapter XXI. The Punishment
  24. Chapter XXII. Refuge
  25. Chapter XXIII. More Schooling
  26. Chapter XXIV. The Slate
  27. Chapter XXV. Rumours
  28. Chapter XXVI. The Gamekeeper
  29. Chapter XXVII. A Voice
  30. Chapter XXVIII. The Wisdom of the Wise
  31. Chapter XXIX. The Beast-Boy
  32. Chapter XXX. The Lorrie Meadow
  33. Chapter XXXI. Their Reward
  34. Chapter XXXII. Prologue
  35. Chapter XXXIII. The Mains
  36. Chapter XXXIV. Glashruach
  37. Chapter XXXV. The Whelp
  38. Chapter XXXVI. The Brander
  39. Chapter XXXVII. Mr. Sclater
  40. Chapter XXXVIII. The Muckle Hoose
  41. Chapter XXXIX. Daur Street
  42. Chapter XL. Mrs. Sclater
  43. Chapter XLI. Initiation
  44. Chapter XLII. Donal’s Lodging
  45. Chapter XLIII. The Minister’s Defeat
  46. Chapter XLIV. The Sinner
  47. Chapter XLV. Shoals Ahead
  48. Chapter XLVI. The Girls
  49. Chapter XLVII. A Lesson of Wisdom
  50. Chapter XLVIII. Needfull Odds and Ends
  51. Chapter XLIX. The Houseless
  52. Chapter L. A Walk
  53. Chapter LI. The North Church
  54. Chapter LII. The Quarry
  55. Chapter LIII. A Night-Watch
  56. Chapter LIV. Of Age
  57. Chapter LV. Ten Auld Hoose O’ Galbraith
  58. Chapter LVI. The Laird and the Preacher
  59. Chapter LVII. A Hiding-Place from the Wind
  60. Chapter LVIII. The Confession
  61. Chapter LIX. Catastrophe
  62. Chapter LX. Arrangement and Preparation
  63. Chapter LXI. The Wedding
  64. Chapter LXII. The Burn
  65. About the Author

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