Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens - Couverture souple

Rackham, Arthur; Barrie, J. M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486466078 ISBN 13 : 9780486466071

Editeur : Dover Children's, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Barrie J M

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There 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.[1] Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made a baronet by George V in 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in 1922. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Fifty full-color illustrations by a preeminent illustrator of children's literature enhance Barrie's timeless tales of the little boy who refused to grow up. This stunning keepsake edition forms a "prequel" to Peter's adventures in Neverland, in which the wild child discovers a magical world in the heart of London.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dover Children's
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0486466078
• ISBN 13: 9780486466071
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192