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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
Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, ...more


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 · 413,778 ratings · 17,837 reviews · 1,691 distinct works • Similar authors
Peter Pan
4.04 avg rating — 337,892 ratings — published 1911 — 7258 editions
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gar...
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3.88 avg rating — 9,141 ratings — published 1906 — 591 editions
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4.18 avg rating — 1,549 ratings — published 1904 — 16 editions
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The Little White Bird
3.86 avg rating — 1,078 ratings — published 1902 — 495 editions
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Peter Pan and Other Plays
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3.92 avg rating — 700 ratings — published 1975 — 19 editions
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The Admirable Crichton
3.73 avg rating — 597 ratings — published 1837 — 84 editions
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Peter Pan: or The Boy Who W...
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Le avventure di Peter Pan
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The Little Minister
3.93 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 1891 — 516 editions
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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
tags: adventure, love
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“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
tags: faith, life, pixie-dust, trust
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“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found ThereLewis Carroll finds us in an imaginary world on the other side of the mirror where everything is backward.
 
  9 votes, 27.3%

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum has us visiting the Emerald City.
 
  8 votes, 24.2%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson has us sailing to the Carribean.
 
  7 votes, 21.2%

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe find us on the Juan Fernández Islands in the South Pacific.
 
  6 votes, 18.2%

In Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie we'll visit Neverland.
 
  3 votes, 9.1%

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