The Admirable Crichton

by J. M. Barrie

Overview

J M Barrie was a Scottish novelist and dramatist best known for creating the character Peter Pan. Barrie was given a Baronet in 1913 for his literary accomplishments. Peter Pan first appeared in a serial called The Little White Bird in 1901. In 1904 the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up was first produced. Barrie has created another humorous work in The Admirable Crichton where positions are reversed when the wealthy Earl of Loam and his resourceful butler Crichton are shipwrecked on a desert island.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438503073
Publisher:	Book Jungle
Publication date:	10/22/2008
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM ( 9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.