George MacDonald

Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood

First published
1871
Length
71,000 words, about 5 hours' reading

Begin reading

A minister’s son grows up in a Scottish country parish.

Contents

  1. Chapter I. Introductory
  2. Chapter II. The Glimmer of Twilight
  3. Chapter III. My Father
  4. Chapter IV. Kirsty
  5. Chapter V. I Begin Life
  6. Chapter VI. No Father
  7. Chapter VII. Mrs. Mitchell is Defeated
  8. Chapter VIII. A New Schoolmistress
  9. Chapter IX. We Learn Other Things
  10. Chapter X. Sir Worm Wymble
  11. Chapter XI. The Kelpie
  12. Chapter XII. Another Kelpie
  13. Chapter XIII. Wandering Willie
  14. Chapter XIV. Elsie Duff
  15. Chapter XV. A New Companion
  16. Chapter XVI. I Go Down Hill
  17. Chapter XVII. The Trouble Grows
  18. Chapter XVIII. Light out of Darkness
  19. Chapter XIX. Forgiveness
  20. Chapter XX. I Have a Fall and a Dream
  21. Chapter XXI. The Bees’ Nest
  22. Chapter XXII. Vain Intercession
  23. Chapter XXIII. Knight-Errantry
  24. Chapter XXIV. Failure
  25. Chapter XXV. Turkey Plots
  26. Chapter XXVI. Old John Jamieson
  27. Chapter XXVII. Turkey’s Trick
  28. Chapter XXVIII. I Scheme Too
  29. Chapter XXIX. A Double Exposure
  30. Chapter XXX. Tribulation
  31. Chapter XXXI. A Winter’s Ride
  32. Chapter XXXII. The Peat-Stack
  33. Chapter XXXIII. A Solitary Chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV. An Evening Visit
  35. Chapter XXXV. A Break in my Story
  36. Chapter XXXVI. I Learn that I am not a Man

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The text is Project Gutenberg’s transcription (ebook #9301), from the public-domain printed edition, made by volunteers.

For this site it was converted to Markdown: Project Gutenberg’s header and licence, the printed page numbers, and the printed table of contents were removed, and the headings were regularised so the book divides into chapters. The words of the text are as Project Gutenberg gives them.

Arthur Hughes’s illustrations come from a scan of the 1874 Lippincott edition at the Internet Archive (ranaldbannermans00macd), which prints the drawings he made for the first edition of 1871. (Project Gutenberg’s text comes from a later Blackie edition, whose coloured plates by A. V. Wheelhouse are left out.)