Author : Piers Dudgeon
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250087791
British edition has subtitle: the tragic life of Michael Llewelyn Davies.
Author : James Barrie
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2018-03-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781986671934
"Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever." "To die will be an awfully big adventure." "All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust." "Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting." "The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it." "Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." "When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies." "Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys." "Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time."
Author : Andrew Birkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2003-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300211325
This literary biography is “a story of obsession and the search for pure childhood . . . Moving, charming, a revelation” (Los Angeles Times). J. M. Barrie, Victorian novelist, playwright, and author of Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, led a life almost as interesting as his famous creation. Childless in his marriage, Barrie grew close to the five young boys of the Davies family, ultimately becoming their guardian and surrogate father when they were orphaned. Andrew Birkin draws extensively on a vast range of material by and about Barrie, including notebooks, memoirs, and hours of recorded interviews with the family and their circle, to describe Barrie’s life, the tragedies that shaped him, and the wonderful world of imagination he created for the boys. Updated with a new preface and including photos and illustrations, this “absolutely gripping” read reveals the dramatic story behind one of the classics of children’s literature (Evening Standard). “A psychological thriller . . . One of the year’s most complex and absorbing biographies.” —Time “[A] fascinating story.” —The Washington Post
Author : Piers Dudgeon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Upper class
ISBN : 9781849547901
Michael Llewelyn Davies was the fourth of five brothers who provided the inspiration for J. M. Barrie's characters Peter Pan, the Lost Boys and the Darling brothers. Barrie struck up an intense friendship with the children and their parents when he encountered them playing in London's Kensington Gardens, an area that would become the Neverland of his most enduring work. Something of the innocence of Michael, who stood out even among his brothers, went on to influence the creation of Barrie's most famous character, Peter Pan. Such was Barrie's closeness to the Llewelyn Davies family that he became trustee and guardian to the boys following the deaths of their parents. Theirs was an enduring relationship, particularly that between Barrie and Michael, to whom he wrote daily, but it was punctuated by the fiercest of tragedies. Throughout the heart-rending saga of Barrie's involvement with the Llewelyn Davies brothers, it is the figure of Michael, the most original and inspirational of their number, and yet also the one whose fate is most pitiable, that stands out. The Real Peter Pan is a captivating true story of childhood, friendship, war, love and regret.
Author : Christina Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399584021
From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a familiar story with a dark hook—a tale about Peter Pan and the friend who became his nemesis, a nemesis who may not be the blackhearted villain Peter says he is… There is one version of my story that everyone knows. And then there is the truth. This is how it happened. How I went from being Peter Pan’s first—and favorite—lost boy to his greatest enemy. Peter brought me to his island because there were no rules and no grownups to make us mind. He brought boys from the Other Place to join in the fun, but Peter's idea of fun is sharper than a pirate’s sword. Because it’s never been all fun and games on the island. Our neighbors are pirates and monsters. Our toys are knife and stick and rock—the kinds of playthings that bite. Peter promised we would all be young and happy forever. Peter lies.
Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416958169
The first-ever authorized sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan! In August 2004 the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, who hold the copyright in Peter Pan, launched a worldwide search for a writer to create a sequel to J. M. Barrie's timeless masterpiece. Renowned and multi award-winning English author Geraldine McCaughrean won the honor to write this official sequel, Peter Pan in Scarlet. Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer and set in the 1930s, Peter Pan in Scarlet takes readers flying back to Neverland in an adventure filled with tension, danger, and swashbuckling derring-do!
Author : James Matthew Barrie
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 1920
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Author : James Matthew Barrie
Publisher : Collector's Library
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781905716401
The original story of Peter Pan.
Author : Crissi Langwell
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Never-Never Land (Imaginary place)
ISBN : 9780996771733
All Tiger Lily wants is to be a warrior and serve as one of the protectors of her people. But there are rules in the Miakoda tribe of Neverland. Girls aren't allowed to fight or hunt, and princesses are to remain free of danger.When pirates threaten her tribe, Tiger Lily is thrown into the very center of peril and uncertainty. But it's not until she finds herself face to face with the legendary Peter Pan that her true adventure begins.
Author : Brom
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061903175
The acclaimed artist Brom brilliantly displays his multiple extraordinary talents in The Child Thief—a spellbinding re-imagining of the beloved Peter Pan story that carries readers through the perilous mist separating our world from the realm of Faerie. As Gregory Maguire did with his New York Times bestselling Wicked novels, Brom takes a classic children’s tale and turns it inside-out, painting a Neverland that, like Maguire’s Oz, is darker, richer, more complex than innocent world J.M. Barrie originally conceived. An ingeniously executed literary feat, illustrated with Brom’s sumptuous artwork, The Child Thief is contemporary fantasy at its finest—casting Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, even Captain Hook and his crew in a breathtaking new light.
