Essential Novelists - J. M. Barrie

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of J. M. Barriewhich arePeter Pan andThe Little White Bird. The famous character of Peter Pan first appeared in the 1902 bookThe Little White Bird. Two years later, his playPeter Panpremiered on the London stage and became a great success. Audiences were drawn into the fantastical tale of the flying boy who never grew up and his adventures in Neverland with the Darling children. Novels selected for this book: - Peter Pan - The Little White Bird This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Writer and playwright J.M. Barrie was born on May 9, 1860, in Kirriemuir, Forfarshire, Scotland. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1882, Barrie worked as a journalist. He published his first novel,Better Dead, in 1887. Barrie soon had a string of popular novels set in Scotland, includingA Window in Thrums(1889).