James Barrie Complete Humorous Romance Fantasy Anthologies
Kids, Fiction, Fantasy and Magic, Teen, Fiction - YA, Fantasy
| Author: | James Barrie | ISBN: | 1230000227788 |
| Publisher: | AGEB Publishing | Publication: | March 24, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | James Barrie |
| ISBN: | 1230000227788 |
| Publisher: | AGEB Publishing |
| Publication: | March 24, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
A Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.
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.
Contents
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
The Admirable Crichton
The Little White Bird, or Adventures In Kensington Gardens
Alice Sit-By-The-Fire
My Lady Nicotine, A Study in Smoke
Echoes of the War
Quality Street, A Comedy
What Every Woman Knows
Courage
Dear Brutus
A Window in Thrums
Auld Licht Idylls
Margaret Ogilvy
The Little Minister
Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
Tommy and Grizel
Peter and Wendy
Better Dead
When a Man's Single
"Der Tag"
A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches
Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey
An Edinburgh Eleven
The Little Minister-
This picturing of Scottish village life and characters is a delightful one. Gavin Dishart, untried and tremendously in earnest in his high calling, is given charge of the Auld Licht Manse in Thrumms, where he at once becomes the property of all the Kirk and village folk, subject at all times to their fond interference and severe criticism. His experiences are told with the mingling of quaint humor and delicate pathos which characterizes the author. The story of the Little Minister's manly love for and loyal holding to the Egyptian, a fascinating gipsy girl, who crosses his path, is a lovely glimpse of the power of a true man's love; and the awakening of thoughtless, untamed Babby to the deeper meaning of life through her love for Gavin is told with great tenderness and beauty. The plot is a strong one and is given with true dramatic power.
A Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.
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.
Contents
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
The Admirable Crichton
The Little White Bird, or Adventures In Kensington Gardens
Alice Sit-By-The-Fire
My Lady Nicotine, A Study in Smoke
Echoes of the War
Quality Street, A Comedy
What Every Woman Knows
Courage
Dear Brutus
A Window in Thrums
Auld Licht Idylls
Margaret Ogilvy
The Little Minister
Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
Tommy and Grizel
Peter and Wendy
Better Dead
When a Man's Single
"Der Tag"
A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches
Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey
An Edinburgh Eleven
The Little Minister-
This picturing of Scottish village life and characters is a delightful one. Gavin Dishart, untried and tremendously in earnest in his high calling, is given charge of the Auld Licht Manse in Thrumms, where he at once becomes the property of all the Kirk and village folk, subject at all times to their fond interference and severe criticism. His experiences are told with the mingling of quaint humor and delicate pathos which characterizes the author. The story of the Little Minister's manly love for and loyal holding to the Egyptian, a fascinating gipsy girl, who crosses his path, is a lovely glimpse of the power of a true man's love; and the awakening of thoughtless, untamed Babby to the deeper meaning of life through her love for Gavin is told with great tenderness and beauty. The plot is a strong one and is given with true dramatic power.
