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Peter Pan
240 pages, Hardcover
Published December 1, 2024
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J.M. Barrie
2,389 books2,229 followersJames 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 turned towards the theatre.
In London, he met Llewelyn Davies, who inspired him about magical adventures of a baby boy in gardens of Kensington, included in The Little White Bird, then to a "fairy play" about this ageless adventures of an ordinary girl, named Wendy, in the setting of Neverland. People credited this best-known play with popularizing Wendy, the previously very unpopular name, and quickly overshadowed his previous, and he continued successfully.
Following the deaths of their parents, Barrie unofficially adopted the boys. He gave the rights to great Ormond street hospital, which continues to benefit.
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 turned towards the theatre.
In London, he met Llewelyn Davies, who inspired him about magical adventures of a baby boy in gardens of Kensington, included in The Little White Bird, then to a "fairy play" about this ageless adventures of an ordinary girl, named Wendy, in the setting of Neverland. People credited this best-known play with popularizing Wendy, the previously very unpopular name, and quickly overshadowed his previous, and he continued successfully.
Following the deaths of their parents, Barrie unofficially adopted the boys. He gave the rights to great Ormond street hospital, which continues to benefit.
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January 27, 2025
Ich denke, ich benutze eine 5-Sterne-Bewertung sehr inflationär. 5 Sterne heißen nicht, dass es das beste Buch aller Zeiten ist, sondern dass für mich die guten Aspekte deutlich über die schlechten überwiegen, wenn es solche aus meiner Sicht überhaupt gibt.
Die Geschichte von Peter Pan kennt man schon lange von Disneys Filmadaption, und die hält sich recht klar an das Plot-Layout des Originals. Was im Film aber nie so schön durchkommen kann, ist das bezaubernde und persönliche Erzählverhalten des Autors. Manchmal spricht er zu uns, dann zu sich selbst und versucht dann wieder verzweifelt, zu den Figuren zu sprechen und zu rufen, während diese ihn als Erzähler natürlich nicht hören. Wobei das nicht immer stimmt.
Das Englisch ist sehr angenehm, die Geschichte brutaler, als man es erwartet hätte und das Ende sehr passend.
Die Geschichte von Peter Pan kennt man schon lange von Disneys Filmadaption, und die hält sich recht klar an das Plot-Layout des Originals. Was im Film aber nie so schön durchkommen kann, ist das bezaubernde und persönliche Erzählverhalten des Autors. Manchmal spricht er zu uns, dann zu sich selbst und versucht dann wieder verzweifelt, zu den Figuren zu sprechen und zu rufen, während diese ihn als Erzähler natürlich nicht hören. Wobei das nicht immer stimmt.
Das Englisch ist sehr angenehm, die Geschichte brutaler, als man es erwartet hätte und das Ende sehr passend.
December 7, 2025
Unfortunately the illustrations are unacceptably blurry
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