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Only read Peter Pan but I love it.
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For some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed enormous commercial success with a wide variety of plays, but he is best known for Peter Pan. It retains its popularity today, both in the original and in adaptations. Barrie returned to the Peter Pan story a few years later with When Wendy Grew Up when the two are reunited later in Wendy's life.
As well as being the author of the greatest of all children's plays Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political satire, much of it now newly topical. The Admirable Crichton and What Every Woman Knows are shrewd and entertaining contributions to the politics of class and gender, while Mary Rose is one of the best ghost stories written for the stage.
As well as being the author of the greatest of all children's plays Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political satire, much of it now newly topical. The Admirable Crichton and What Every Woman Knows are shrewd and entertaining contributions to the politics of class and gender, while Mary Rose is one of the best ghost stories written for the stage.
384 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1975
This edition
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384 pages, Paperback
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July 15, 1999 by Oxford University Press
- ISBN
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9780192839190
- ASIN
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0192839195
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English
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James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays.
The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism for a newspaper in Nottingham and contributed to various London journals before moving there in 1885. His early Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889) contain fictional sketches of Scottish life representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next decade, Barrie continued to write novels, but gradually, his interest turned towards the theatre.
In London, he met Llewelyn Davies, who inspired him about magical adventures of a baby boy in gardens of Kensington, included in The Little White Bird, then to a "fairy play" about this ageless adventures of an ordinary girl, named Wendy, in the setting of Neverland. People credited this best-known play with popularizing Wendy, the previously very unpopular name, and quickly overshadowed his previous, and he continued successfully.
Following the deaths of their parents, Barrie unofficially adopted the boys. He gave the rights to great Ormond street hospital, which continues to benefit.
The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism for a newspaper in Nottingham and contributed to various London journals before moving there in 1885. His early Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889) contain fictional sketches of Scottish life representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next decade, Barrie continued to write novels, but gradually, his interest turned towards the theatre.
In London, he met Llewelyn Davies, who inspired him about magical adventures of a baby boy in gardens of Kensington, included in The Little White Bird, then to a "fairy play" about this ageless adventures of an ordinary girl, named Wendy, in the setting of Neverland. People credited this best-known play with popularizing Wendy, the previously very unpopular name, and quickly overshadowed his previous, and he continued successfully.
Following the deaths of their parents, Barrie unofficially adopted the boys. He gave the rights to great Ormond street hospital, which continues to benefit.
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I had to read this for my Open University course, but I really enjoyed it. It's a great story, and there are bits in the book that aren't in any of the film or panto versions I've watched, which makes it something new and interesting even after watching so many other versions.
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Note: I just read the two plays about Peter Pan.
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All that Tinker Bell really says is "You silly ass" - I love it!
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A play meant to be read more than watched. It's ok, but i probably wont revisit it.
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I've only read Peter Pan, not the other plays, but I loved it. Some of the lines are so moving, like when Wendy asks, "Boy, why are you crying?" I was surprised how touching some of the moments like that were when read with the stage directions.
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exactly like the movie #firstcrush.
aka: they slayed the movie
aka: they slayed the movie
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I think it was watching Finding Neverland that inspired me to read the original play Peter Pan. If you've never bothered to read it, or have only read the novel, I highly recommend it. The stage directions and notes are the best parts, and make for a highly entertaining read. Between the lines and underneath all the silliness, there is a great deal of wit and insight.
(I also read What Every Woman Knows, and felt a bit disappointed at the lack of depth and sensitivity in comparison to Peter Pan.)
(I also read What Every Woman Knows, and felt a bit disappointed at the lack of depth and sensitivity in comparison to Peter Pan.)
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