Sir James Mathew Barrie was born on May 9, 1860, at Kirriemuir in Scotland, the ninth of ten children of a weaver. When Barrie was six, his older brother David died in a skating accident. Barrie then became his mother’s chief comforter, while David remained in her memory a boy of thirteen who would never grow up. Barrie received his M.A. degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1882 and began working as a journalist. In 1885 he moved to London, and his writings were collected in Auld Licht Idlls (1888) and A Window in Thurns (1889), which, together with a sentimental novel, The Little Minister (1891), made him a best-selling author. In 1894 he married an actress, Mary Ansell, but the marriage was profoundly unhappy, produced no children, and was dissolved in 1910. However, a favorite Saint Bernard dog of Mary’s later became the famous Nana of Peter Pan. In 1897, with the adaptation of The Little Minister, Barrie became a successful playwright, writing the plays The Admirable Crichton (1902), What Every Woman Knows (1903), and Peter Pan (1904), which was produced in 1904 and revived in London every Christmas season thereafter. While the figure of Peter Pan first appeared in Barrie’s book The Little White Bird (1902), the story and the concept began in the tales Barrie told the sons of Mrs. Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, a woman Barrie loved. Barrie then published the story of Peter Pan in book form as Peter and Wendy (1911). The best of Barrie’s later works is Dear Brutus (1917), a haunting play that again brought the supernatural and fantasy to the London stage. Barrie died in 1937, bequeathing the copyright of Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, a hospital for children.
Considered a masterpiece since its first appearance on stage in 1904, Peter Pan is J. M. Barrie's most famous work and the greatest of all children's stories. While it is a wonderful fantasy for the young, Peter Pan, particularly in the novel form Barrie published in 1911, says something important to all of us. Here "the boy who wouldn't grow up" and his adventures with Wendy and the lost boys in the Neverland evoke a deep emotional response as they give form to our feelings about parents, boys and girls, the unknown, freedom, and responsibility. Humorous, satiric, filled with suspenseful cliff-hangers and bittersweet truths, Peter Pan works an indisputable magic on readers of all ages, making it a true classic of imaginative literature.
“Barrie wrote his fantasy of childhood, added another figure to our enduring literature, and thereby undoubtedly made one of the boldest bids for immortality of any writer. . . . It is a masterpiece.”—J. B. Priestley
很多年前我看过一部叫做《丹麦诗人》的动画短片,那是部美好的作品。在动画片的开头,一个温柔又不失感性的女性声音给我们讲述了她一直以来对生命的理解,她说:“小时候,我以为大家都来自外太空。呱呱坠地之前,我们只是飘在空中的小种子,等着被某人领走。选择过程是任意的...
评分《彼得潘》,我没看过大陆版,只看过梁实秋翻译的民国版。但我浏览了一下这里的书评,我猜,大陆的译本是个“洁本”。 这个洁本不能怪大陆,是英国的出版方再版时把初版里“儿童不宜”的东西删去了。大陆译本应该是译自再版本。 抄几段以前写的书评,让没机会看初版本的读者体...
评分又看彼得潘了,还是更喜欢开头和结尾,就象小时侯一样,我不喜欢看圣斗士,不喜欢变形金刚,不喜欢那些所谓的为正义而战,我只喜欢那些安安静静的故事,所以我不喜欢看他们和胡克船长打架,不喜欢小仙女的死去,喜欢开头温蒂遇到彼得潘,认识这个永远长不大,也不想长大的孩子...
评分童话都是大人写的。当我们长大后,带着一颗童心重读那些儿时听过的故事,才能越明白大人所讲的童话。 里面没有一个讨喜的角色,但也没有哪个讨人厌。Peter Pan甚至让我咬牙切齿的,他是个傲慢、自负、健忘的家伙,甚至我觉得还有点嗜血……就像每一个我们小时候那样。...
评分很多年前我看过一部叫做《丹麦诗人》的动画短片,那是部美好的作品。在动画片的开头,一个温柔又不失感性的女性声音给我们讲述了她一直以来对生命的理解,她说:“小时候,我以为大家都来自外太空。呱呱坠地之前,我们只是飘在空中的小种子,等着被某人领走。选择过程是任意的...
价值观还是略陈腐了一些......
评分价值观还是略陈腐了一些......
评分不知道为什么,这次重读这本书的时候突然觉得Peter Pan是一个死去的小男孩的幽灵,这样一想就觉得好伤心。以前读这本书的时候只见到男权女权,这一次突然意识到这本书充满了死亡。
评分最喜欢最后两个chapter,和之前冒险不同,温情许多。peter在neverland上凶狠霸气,但是最后两个章节中却发现他真的还只是个小男孩。他想留住wendy却又很固执。最后提到的gay innocent heartless真的很感伤,小孩就是因为这些可以飞翔,而大人正是因为没有了这些而飞不起来了~第二部原版小说。看起来有点累,作者会穿插点自白,所以理解上有点困难,但是理解之后又会觉得融入其中的感觉。虽然我真的不怎么喜欢冒险探险之类的情节,但是这部小说的主题和最后两章的温情,我还是很喜欢的~——201111116
评分Peter thimbled her...
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