This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. Author's biography and free stories in the trial version. Table of Contents List of Works by Genre and Title List of Works in Alphabetical Order List of Works in Chronological Order Biography of J. M. Barrie Fiction :: Non-Fiction :: Plays :: Short Stories :: Essays Fiction Auld Licht Idyls Better Dead Echoes of the War The Little Minister The Little White Bird My Lady Nicotine—A Study in Smoke (Illustrated by Maurice Brazil Prendergast) Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Sentimental Tommy—The Story of His Boyhood Tommy and Grizel (Illustrated by Bernard Partridge) A Window in Thrums (Illustrated by Bernard Partridge) Non-Fiction Margaret Ogilvy Plays The Admirable Crichton Alice Sit-By-The-Fire Dear Brutus Peter Pan What Every Woman Knows Short Stories The Inconsiderate Waiter Essays Courage
Author
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889), contain fictional sketches of Scottish life and are commonly seen as representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theatre. In London he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing 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 this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them.
