Peter Pan adventures, James M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, (1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents.

In this ebook:

Peter Pan, 1904)

Peter and Wendy, 1904

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 1902

The Little White Bird, 1902

The Admirable Crichton, 1902

Courage, 1922

Echoes of the War, 1918

Quality Street, 1901

What Every Woman Knows, 1908

A Window in Thrums, 1889

The Little Minister, 1881

Sentimental Tommy, 1896

Dear Brutus, 1917

Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, 1905

Auld Licht Idylls, 1888

Tommy and Grizel, 1900

When a Man's Single, 1888

Better Dead, 1888

A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches, 1882

"Der Tag", 1914

An Edinburgh Eleven, 1924

Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey, 1912