The Little White Bird (J. M. Barrie's Collector's Edition) - Softcover
Where did Peter Pan come from? There is a very general conception that he stepped from Mr. Barrie's day-dreams straight upon the boards. But those who remember that delicate piece of sentiment, "The Little White Bird, or Adventures in Kensington Gardens" will find him already grown to his eternal youth there. In the story that the lonely old bachelor tells the boy David, Peter Pan is the same lad, whose "age is a week" and who "escaped from being human when he was seven days old; he escaped by the window and flew back to the Kensington Gardens," where, like all children, he had been a bird before he was born; and he lives in Kensington Gardens, which is the Never Never Land of "The Little White Bird."
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About the Author:
James Matthew Barrie was born in 1860 at Kirriemuir, a Forfarshire village to which he has given a popularity it never formerly enjoyed. Educated at first at the village school, he passed to Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh University, taking his M.A. in 1882. After eighteen months' work on the staff of a Nottingham newspaper, he settled in London as a contributor to such weekly journals as the Speaker and the National Observer. His first book, Better Dead (1887), was largely a satire on London life; his second, 'The Auld Licht Idylls (1888), and its successor and sequel, A Window in Thrums (1889), made him one of the most popular writers of the day. Few recent sketches of Scottish village life show as much keen observation and quaint humor as are to be found in these vignettes of an extinct generation of country weavers. Less successful was Mr. Barrie's next venture, The Little Minister, a full-length novel published in Good Words in 1891, which, though clever in description, dialogue, and character-drawing, showed a lack of constructive power on a large design and of skill in the handling of a theme involving serious passion. Other works of fiction from his pen are When a Man's Single (1888); My Lady Nicotine (1899); Sentimental Tommy (1896), with its sequel, Tommy and Grizel (1900); and The Little White Bird (1902). Margaret Ogilvie (1896) is a pathetic picture of the life and death of his mother. His dramatic ventures, including Walker, London (1892), a slight but agreeable farce, in the title-role of which Mr. J. L. Toole made one of his last successes; The Professor's Love Story (1895), a charmingly fresh comedy; and a setting of his own novel The Little Minister (1897), which displayed many of the faults of the novel, were wonderfully well received on the stage, and have been followed by The Wedding Guest, a rather melodramatic piece; The Admirable Crichton, a clever fantasy; Quality Street; and the 'delightful joke' Little Mary (1903).
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- PublisherJazzybee Verlag
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 3849675114
- ISBN 13 9783849675110
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages120
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