Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Kirriemuir Edition of the Works of J.M. Barrie
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
J M Barrie and the Lost Boys
Author: Andrew BirkinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300211325
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 787
Book Description
This literary biography is “a story of obsession and the search for pure childhood . . . Moving, charming, a revelation” (Los Angeles Times). J. M. Barrie, Victorian novelist, playwright, and author of Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, led a life almost as interesting as his famous creation. Childless in his marriage, Barrie grew close to the five young boys of the Davies family, ultimately becoming their guardian and surrogate father when they were orphaned. Andrew Birkin draws extensively on a vast range of material by and about Barrie, including notebooks, memoirs, and hours of recorded interviews with the family and their circle, to describe Barrie’s life, the tragedies that shaped him, and the wonderful world of imagination he created for the boys. Updated with a new preface and including photos and illustrations, this “absolutely gripping” read reveals the dramatic story behind one of the classics of children’s literature (Evening Standard). “A psychological thriller . . . One of the year’s most complex and absorbing biographies.” —Time “[A] fascinating story.” —The Washington Post
Hide-and-Seek with Angels
Author: Lisa ChaneyPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466861401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
What kind of man creates a boy who never grows up? More than 100 years after Peter Pan first appeared on the London stage, author J. M. Barrie remains one of the most complex and enigmatic figures in modern literature. A few facts, of course, are widely known: Peter Pan made Barrie the richest author of his time, and he bequeathed the royalties to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. He was married, but later divorced, and he was devoted to the orphaned sons of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, one of whom was named Peter. And then the rumors begin—about the nature of his marriage; about his precise relationship with the Davies boys, whose guardian he became; about the fantasies and demons that determined his achievements. In this brilliant biography, Lisa Chaney goes beyond the myths to discover the fascinating, frequently misunderstood man behind the famous boy. James Matthew Barrie was born in a village in Scotland in 1860, the ninth of 10 children of a linen-weaver and his wife. When James was six years old, his older brother died in a skating accident, and his mother began her withdrawal into grief. It is not an exaggeration to say that Barrie's entire life—both his professional triumphs as a writer and his personal tragedies—led up to the creation of Peter Pan, the play where "all children except one grow up." As Lisa Chaney explores Barrie's own struggles to grow up, she deepens our understanding both of his most famous character and of the complex relationship between life and art.
My Heart in Company
Author: Timothy Garrett YoungPublisher: Beinecke Rare Book Library
ISBN: 9780300134032
Category : Boys in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A catalogue of remarkable artifacts from Barrie's life, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Peter Pan.
J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in and Out of Time
Author: Donna R. WhitePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810854287
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Part of the "Centennial Studies" series, this fourth volume explores the cultural contents of Barrie's creation and the continuing impact of "Peter Pan" on children's literature and popular culture in contemporary times. It also focuses on the fluctuations of time and narrative strategies.
The Plays of J.M. Barrie
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Twenty plays in which the playwright blends fantasy and realism, comedy and pathos in varying amounts. His best known play is Peter Pan but his most accomplished play is considered to be Dear Brutus.
A Window in Thrums
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kensington Gardens (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Neverland
Author: Piers DudgeonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781605981918
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The untold story behind Peter Pan The shocking account of J. M. Barrie's abuse and exploitation of the du Maurier family.
The Complete Peter Pan
Author: J. M. BarriePublisher: Oneworld Classics Limited
ISBN: 9781847495600
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The boy who wouldn't grow up, Peter Pan has the power of flight and lives on a magical island. But he is fascinated by Mary Darling's bedtime stories for her children and makes covert night-time visits to their Bloomsbury home. One evening he loses his shadow, and after Mary's daughter Wendy helps him reattach it, he invites her to fly away with him on an extraordinary adventure. In addition to the famous 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, which tells the familiar adventures of Peter Pan in Neverland and popularized the characters of Tinkerbell and Captain Hook, this volume contains the celebrated stage version on which Peter and Wendy is based, as well as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, in which Peter Pan is a seven-day-old infant who consorts with birds and fairies and travels down the Serpentine in a thrush's nest.