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J.M. Barrie

Born

in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland

May 09, 1860

Died

June 19, 1937

Genre

Children's, Fiction, Drama

Influences

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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889), contain fictional sketches of Scottish life and are commonly seen as representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theatre.

In London he met the Llewelyn Davies bo ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 411,756 ratings · 17,643 reviews · 1,589 distinct works • Similar authors

	Peter Pan 4.04 avg rating — 336,177 ratings — published 1911 — 7198 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie, Arthur Rackham (Illustrator) 3.88 avg rating — 9,115 ratings — published 1906 — 112 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie, Peter Hollindale (Editor), Rodrigo Breunig (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 7,100 ratings — published 1906 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures by J.M. Barrie, Francis Donkin Bedford (Illustrator), Arthur Rackham (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 1,545 ratings — published 1904 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little White Bird 3.86 avg rating — 1,075 ratings — published 1902 — 495 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Pan and Other Plays by J.M. Barrie, Peter Hollindale (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 698 ratings — published 1975 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Admirable Crichton 3.73 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 1837 — 210 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Pan: or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Acts by J.M. Barrie, Trevor Nunn 4.05 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 1904 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le avventure di Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, Paolo Falcone (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 337 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Minister 3.93 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 1891 — 515 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by J.M. Barrie

Peter Pan (4 books)
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Francis Donkin Bedford (Illustrator),

Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)

4.03 avg rating — 353,936 ratings

Thrums (3 books)
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J.M. Barrie

3.76 avg rating — 358 ratings

Sentimental Tommy (2 books)
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J.M. Barrie

3.77 avg rating — 115 ratings

Quotes by J.M. Barrie (?)

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

17429 likes

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust

8985 likes

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: goodbye

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Polls

November 2014 New School Classics Poll

1911, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 155 pages

21 votes, 15.2%

1920, The Age of Innocence byEdith Wharton, 305 pages

19 votes, 13.8%

1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 291 pages

14 votes, 10.1%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 428 pages

13 votes, 9.4%

1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages

11 votes, 8.0%

1962, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages

10 votes, 7.2%

1998, The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 546 pages

9 votes, 6.5%

1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, 198 pages

8 votes, 5.8%

1993, Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pages

7 votes, 5.1%

1994, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages

7 votes, 5.1%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages

5 votes, 3.6%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1920, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 454 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1960, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, 242 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1939, How Green Was My Valleyby Richard Llewellyn, 448 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, 128 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1966, Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 176 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

138 total votes

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