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J.M. Barrie


Born
in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland
May 09, 1860

Died
June 19, 1937

Genre
Children's, Fiction, Drama

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


James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays.

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

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Average rating: 4.06 · 444,663 ratings · 20,427 reviews · 2,094 distinct works • Similar authors
Peter Pan
4.03 avg rating — 362,991 ratings — published 1911 — 4938 editions
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gar...
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3.93 avg rating — 14,394 ratings — published 1906 — 187 editions
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Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy ...
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Peter Pan: The Complete Adv...
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4.18 avg rating — 1,613 ratings — published 1904 — 34 editions
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The Little White Bird
3.84 avg rating — 1,174 ratings — published 1902 — 449 editions
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Peter Pan and Other Plays
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The Admirable Crichton
3.73 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 1902 — 397 editions
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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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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.”
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Polls

November 2014 New School Classics Poll

1911, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 155 pages
 
  20 votes, 14.7%

1920, The Age of Innocence byEdith Wharton, 305 pages
 
  19 votes, 14.0%

 
  14 votes, 10.3%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 428 pages
 
  13 votes, 9.6%

1962, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages
 
  10 votes, 7.4%

 
  10 votes, 7.4%

 
  9 votes, 6.6%

 
  8 votes, 5.9%

 
  7 votes, 5.1%

1994, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages
 
  7 votes, 5.1%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.7%

 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1920, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 454 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

1960, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, 242 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.2%

 
  2 votes, 1.5%

 
  2 votes, 1.5%

 
  1 vote, 0.7%

136 total votes
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