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An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in and the child is stolen away by his loving nurse, what can unfold but a riveting account of the years of mystery, drama, love and lessons for which MacDonald's writings are known.
- Chapters
- Father, Child, and Nurse
- Stepmother and Nurse
- The Flight
- The Bookbinder and His Pupil
- The Mansons
- Simon Armour
- Comparisons
- A Lost Shoe
- A Holiday
- The Library
- Alice
- Mortgrange
- The Beech Tree
- The Library
- Barbara Wylder
- Barbara and Richard
- Barbara and Others
- Mrs. Wylder
- Mrs. Wylder and Barbara
- Barbara and Her Critics
- The Parson's Parable
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- A Human Gadfly
- Richard and Wingfold
- Wingfold and His Wife
- Richard and Alice
- A Sister
- Barbara and Lady Ann
- Alice and Barbara
- Barbara Thinks
- Wingfold and Barbara
- The Shoeing of Miss Brown
- Richard and Vixen
- Barbara's Duty
- The Parson's Counsel
- Lady Ann Meditates
- Lady Ann and Richard
- Richard and Arthur
- Mr., Mrs., and Miss Wylder
- In London
- Nature and Supernature
- Yet a Lower Deep
- To Be Redeemed, One Must Redeem
- A Door Opened in Heaven
- The Carriage
- Richard's Dilemma
- The Doors of Harmony and Death
- Death and the Deliverer
- The Cave in the Fire
- Duck Fists
- Baronet and Blacksmith
- Uncle-Father and Aunt-Mother
- Morning
- Barbara at Home
- Miss Brown
- Wingfold and Barbara
- The Baronet's Will
- The Heir
- Wingfold and Arthur Manson
- Richard and His Family
- Heart to Heart
- The Quarrel
- Baronet and Blacksmith
- The Baronet's Funeral
- The Packet
- Barbara's Dream