Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie

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. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theatre. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. 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.

He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. Looking at the man behind Peter Pan and sifting through the psychological interpretations that have engaged many a critic, Zipes explores the larger cultural and literary contexts in which we should appreciate Barrie's enduring creation and shows why Peter Pan is a work not for children but for adults seeking to reconnect with their own imagination. This edition includes the novel and the stories, as well as an introduction by eminent scholar Jack Zipes. In a narrative filled with vivid characters, epic battles, pirates, fairies, and fantastic imagination, Peter Pan's adventures capture the spirit of childhood-and of rebellion against the role of adulthood in conventional society.

His later role as flying boy hero was brought to the stage by Barrie in the beloved play Peter Pan, which opened in 1904 and became the novel Peter and Wendy in 1911. Barrie's sequence of stories, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Peter Pan originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M.

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie