Sir Gibbie

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Robert Dodd, Thomas Gainsborough and Richard Parkes Bonington. 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 hi...