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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

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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 · 434,417 ratings · 19,471 reviews · 2,048 distinct works • Similar authors

	Peter Pan 4.04 avg rating — 355,579 ratings — published 1911 — 786 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie, Arthur Rackham (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 16,118 ratings — published 1906 — 582 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures by J.M. Barrie, Francis Donkin Bedford (Illustrator), Arthur Rackham (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 1,598 ratings — published 1904 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little White Bird 3.84 avg rating — 1,148 ratings — published 1902 — 300 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Pan and Other Plays by J.M. Barrie, Peter Hollindale (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 730 ratings — published 1975 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens 3.83 avg rating — 698 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Admirable Crichton 3.73 avg rating — 637 ratings — published 1902 — 395 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peter Pan: or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up: A Fantasy in Five Acts by J.M. Barrie, Trevor Nunn really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 1904 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le avventure di Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, Paolo Falcone (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 360 ratings — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Minister 3.92 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 1891 — 477 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by J.M. Barrie

Peter Pan (2 books)
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3.94 avg rating — 17,714 ratings

Thrums (3 books)
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J.M. Barrie

3.73 avg rating — 373 ratings

Sentimental Tommy (2 books)
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3.76 avg rating — 120 ratings

Quotes by J.M. Barrie (?)

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

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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.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: goodbye

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Dune by Frank Herbert Group read Nov 2012, 1965, 687 pages, Group read Nov 2012

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Middlemarch by George Eliot 1871, 904 pages, Group read Jan 2016

65 votes, 21.2%

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 1904, 176 pages, Group read Nov 2014

58 votes, 19.0%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 1842, 512 pages, Group read May 2017

42 votes, 13.7%

Othello by William Shakespeare 1603, 314 pages, Group read June 2017

40 votes, 13.1%

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30 votes, 9.8%

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