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This selection of J M Barrie's work covers three different genres and all the most telling themes found in his writing: Scotland, childhood, fantasy and sentimentality, sexual anxiety, theatrical invention, social comedy and proto-feminism. The disturbing prose fable of The Little White Bird contains the first and most original exploration of the Peter Pan theme, properly set in the wider context of a middle-aged man's engagement with creation, fantasy and loneliness-a theme which made Barrie world-famous and haunted him for the rest of his life. In a one-act play of scintillating satire, The Twelve-Pound Look exposes the pomposities of male pride and public success in 1910 from the point of view of an ex-wife unexpectedly returned as her (be)knighted husband's typist. Written in diary form and telling of an uncanny romance in a remote winter glen, Farewell Miss Julie Logan evokes the author's fascination with longing, death and loss in a novella which can stand with the stories of the supernatural and which itself raises questions about the nature of romance fiction. This volume offers an exciting reassessment of one of Scotland's most unusual and misrepresented writers.

Author Biography:

J.M. Barrie was born in the burgh of Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, the son of weaver David Barrie and his wife Margaret Ogilvy. His brother David died at the age of fourteen in a skating accident, and the profound sadness of his mother deeply affected young James. James attended school in Kirriemuir before entering Edinburgh University, earning his M.A. in 1882, before obtaining a job as a writer with the Nottingham Journal, and moving to London in 1885. In 1894 Barrie married actress Mary Ansell. Though they would have no children of their own, he became legal guardian to the five sons of the Llewelyn Davies family when they were orphaned. A prolific writer of fiction, plays, articles and even an opera on which he collaborated with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Barrie was knighted in 1913, the same year he became rector of St. Andrews University. In 1922 he received the Order of Merit, and in 1928 became President of the Society of Authors. His most famous and enduringly popular story remains that of Peter Pan, which began life as a play, first performed in 1902, and published in 1928.
Release date Australia
May 18th, 2000
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Canongate Classics
Pages
320
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Dimensions
126x196x21
ISBN-13
9781841950037
Product ID
1707594

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