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J.M. Barrie


Born
in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
May 09, 1860

Died
June 19, 1937

Genre
Children's, Fiction, Drama

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


Whimsical and fantastic works of British writer Sir James Matthew Barrie include the play Peter Pan (1904).

People best remembered today Scottish author and dramatist James Matthew Barrie, first baronet, who in order of merit created Peter Pan.

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

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Average rating: 4.06 · 429,093 ratings · 19,137 reviews · 1,929 distinct works • Similar authors
Peter Pan
4.04 avg rating — 351,571 ratings — published 1911 — 4975 editions
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gar...
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3.87 avg rating — 9,367 ratings — published 1906 — 505 editions
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gar...
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3.98 avg rating — 7,232 ratings — published 1906 — 81 editions
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Peter Pan: The Complete Adv...
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4.18 avg rating — 1,585 ratings — published 1904 — 34 editions
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The Little White Bird
3.84 avg rating — 1,117 ratings — published 1902 — 449 editions
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Peter Pan and Other Plays
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3.91 avg rating — 722 ratings — published 1975 — 18 editions
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The Admirable Crichton
3.74 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 1902 — 394 editions
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Peter Pan: or The Boy Who W...
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4.02 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 1904 — 32 editions
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Le avventure di Peter Pan
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The Little Minister
3.92 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 1891 — 461 editions
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Series by J.M. Barrie

Peter Pan Peter Pan in Kensington Gar... Peter Pan in Kensington Gar... Peter Pan: The Complete Adv...
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Auld Licht Idylls A Window in Thrums The Little Minister
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3.74 avg rating — 367 ratings

Sentimental Tommy Tommy and Grizel
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3.77 avg rating — 118 ratings

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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
tags: goodbye
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Which of these three classic children's fantasy worlds do you most want to visit?

Narnia The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7) by C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis
 
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Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll
 
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  61 votes, 17.9%

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