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2. J.M. Barrie
Author:
Publisher:
H.Z. Walck
Pub. Date:
[1961]
Edition:
[1st American ed.]
Physical Desc:
64 pages : portrait ; 19 cm
Language:
English
Series:
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date:
♭2009
Physical Desc:
1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : illustrations
Language:
English
Description:
Over a century after its first stage performance, Peter Pan has become deeply embedded in Western popular culture, as an enduring part of childhood memories, in every part of popular media, and in commercial enterprises. Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up Wendy Darling,...
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Series:
Publisher:
Editions Rodopi
Pub. Date:
2010
Physical Desc:
1 online resource (341 pages).
Language:
English
Description:
J.M. Barrie's critical reputation is unusually problematic. Originally viewed as a genius to rank with Shaw and Wilde, Barrie soon fell victim to damaging psychological theories about his life and his patriotism. The few critics who have commented on Barrie have colluded with dominant myths about a figure who, like his most famous creation, never grew up, who abandoned Scotland and made light of his own people when serious social analyses of the nation's...
10. Hook
Author:
Publisher:
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date:
1992
Edition:
1st ed
Physical Desc:
viii, 275 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language:
English
Author:
Publisher:
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date:
2016
Edition:
First U.S. edition
Physical Desc:
xiii, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Description:
"The world has long been captivated by the story of Peter Pan and the countless movies, plays, musicals, and books that retell the story of Peter, Wendy, and the Lost Boys. Now, in this revealing behind-the-scenes book, author Piers Dudgeon examines the fascinating and complex relationships among Peter Pan's creator, J.M. Barrie, and the family of boys who inspired his work. After meeting the Llewelyn Davies family in London's Kensington Garden, Barrie...
Language:
English
Description:
London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes "Peter Pan." After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads' mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, Sylvia's mother, and high society, which...
Author:
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date:
2009
Edition:
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed
Physical Desc:
xvi, 333 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Description:
Relates the tragic story of the author of the beloved children's novel, who learned hypnosis to captivate and psychologically abuse a family with whom he had become obsessed, the very family that inspired the Darlings of "Peter Pan."
Author:
Language:
English
Description:
What kind of man creates a boy who never grows up? More than 100 years after Peter Pan first appeared on the London stage, author J. M. Barrie remains one of the most complex and enigmatic figures in modern literature. A few facts, of course, are widely known: Peter Pan made Barrie the richest author of his time, and he bequeathed the royalties to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. He was married, but later divorced, and he was devoted...
17. Peter Pan
Language:
English
Description:
Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London, but as the children for whom he invented the stories grew older, so too did Peter, reappearing in Neverland, where he was aided in his epic battles with Red Indians and pirates by the motherly and resourceful Wendy Darling. F. D. Bedford's wonderful...
18. The pirate fairy
Author:
Publisher:
Buena Vista Home Entertaiment
Pub. Date:
[2014
Edition:
Widescreen
Physical Desc:
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:
English
Description:
When a dust-keeper fairy steals Pixie Hollow's Blue Pixie Dust, and joins forces with the pirates of Skull Rock, Tinker Bell and friends set out on a quest to return it to its rightful place.
Publisher:
Binge Box
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Physical Desc:
5 videodiscs (529 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:
English
Description:
Mary Poppins: Mary Poppins flies out of the windy London skies and into the home of two mischievous children. With the help of a carefree chimney sweep named Bert, the spirited nanny turns every chore into a game
Hotel for dogs: When two orphans, whose foster parents do not allow pets, discover stray dogs in an abandoned hotel, they fix up the building and get help from their friends to run the new shelter.
Charlotte's web: Wilbur the pig and his...
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date:
[2011]
Edition:
1st ed., Centennial ed
Physical Desc:
cviii, 393 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
Language:
English
Description:
An annotated version of the classic story of the boy who never grows up includes period photos and a discussion of the tale's controversial history.
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