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
这一生,第一本让我哭的书.12岁的时候,最大的烦恼不过是期末考试.但是这本书抛给我一个事实,人人都是要长大的.除了"潘".书的最后部分作者写得甜蜜而哀愁,当看到温蒂长大了,忘记了怎么飞的时候,我哭了起来.始终都找不到一个完美的原因.就是面对"长大"这两个...
评分和小王子一样是一本适合成人的童话 看完了,伤心的哭了,因为我长大了 如果能像彼得潘,生活也许都会是一场家家酒.只是扮演着一个角色, 在一个故事里面演出着悲与喜 哈,当时居然在里面看到了爱情...
评分1904年12月27日,英国伦敦约克公爵剧场。 詹姆斯·巴里的童话剧《肯辛顿公园的彼得·潘》首次上演。 小仙女叮叮铃(Tinker Bell)为了救彼得·潘吞下了胡克船长的毒药,伤心的彼得·潘对着观众大声喊道: “你们相信童话吗?如果相信,请鼓掌。”在经过了漫长如一生的沉默...
评分所有的孩子都会长大,只有一个孩子除外。他的名字叫作彼得•潘,他是一个会飞的男孩儿。 看到这句话的时候,我并不嫉妒他,我只觉得有些悲哀。我不知道这是因为我已经不再相信童话,还是因为我其实很喜爱成长,尽管成长本身是一个蜕变的过程。 已经过了会相信童...
评分“爸爸,你究竟为什么活着?” 这个问题好难噢……于是,爸爸反问说:“那你为什么活着?” “为了玩。” 地球上所有的孩子都将长大,必须长大,除了一个,仅有的一个,唯一的一个,人们都管他叫:彼得.潘。 无忧岛,总体来说,那是一个迷人的岛。长翅膀的精...
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评分没有比这更让人心碎的故事了。。。。
评分好像自己看的是个小小黑黑的英文版本。每个孩子都有不想长大的念头吧。
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