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Little White Bird (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Peter Pan appears for the first time in this 1902 work. After dark, magical inhabitants emerge behind the locked gates of Londons famous gardens. Other characters in the …
Peter and Wendy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
In this 1911 novelization of Barries most beloved play, Peter Pan, Peter partners with the motherly and kind Wendy, and finds himself engaged in all sorts of adventures, including …
Dear Brutus (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
The intriguing Dear Brutus is reminiscent of Barries famed Peter Pan, in that it traces a group of people who enter a magic wood. Here they are transformed into the people they …
Admirable Crichton (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
In this 1902 play, Lord Loam is a man who does not see class distinctions. His butler, Crichton, and his servants mingle with his tea party guests, to the embarrassment of all. …
Quality Street (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
In this 1901 Napoleonic-era comedy, Phoebe Throssel disguises herself as a vivacious cousin to test the suitor who spurned her. The play inspired the Quality Street brand of candy, …
Echoes of the War (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
J. M. Barrie wrote plays to promote support for the war to end all wars. Yet they are not plays about war, but rather about parents and the children they send off to war. Though …
Tommy and Grizel (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
The creator of Peter Pan offers a darker take on boys who wont grow up. In this 1900 sequel to The Sentimental Tommy (1896), a young man wont let go of childish fantasy. The novel, …
Sentimental Tommy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Barries best-known character is a boy who never grows old. But Sentimental Tommy, published in 1896, traces with a whimsical touch the life of a man who grows old, but clings to …
What Every Woman Knows (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This 1908 play took London and Broadway by storm. Plain Maggies family agrees to fund John Shands educationif he agrees to marry her later. Eventually Shand is elected to …
Margaret Ogilvy (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
J. M. Barrie, author of the play Peter Pan, wrote this unusual memoir about his mother, Margaret Ogilvy, after her death. Barries mother brought him up in a richly imaginative …
Alice Sit-By-The-Fire (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This charming 1905 play by the creator of Peter Pan was revived in 2007. When parents return from India, their children have grown up into young adults capable of making …
Better Dead (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
When Andrew Riach went to London, his intention was to become private secretary to a member of the Cabinet. If time permitted, he proposed writing for the Press. So begins the …