Sir James Mathew Barrie was born on May 9, 1860, at Kirriemuir in Scotland, the ninth of ten children of a weaver. When Barrie was six, his older brother David died in a skating accident. Barrie then became his mother’s chief comforter, while David remained in her memory a boy of thirteen who would never grow up. Barrie received his M.A. degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1882 and began working as a journalist. In 1885 he moved to London, and his writings were collected in Auld Licht Idlls (1888) and A Window in Thurns (1889), which, together with a sentimental novel, The Little Minister (1891), made him a best-selling author. In 1894 he married an actress, Mary Ansell, but the marriage was profoundly unhappy, produced no children, and was dissolved in 1910. However, a favorite Saint Bernard dog of Mary’s later became the famous Nana of Peter Pan. In 1897, with the adaptation of The Little Minister, Barrie became a successful playwright, writing the plays The Admirable Crichton (1902), What Every Woman Knows (1903), and Peter Pan (1904), which was produced in 1904 and revived in London every Christmas season thereafter. While the figure of Peter Pan first appeared in Barrie’s book The Little White Bird (1902), the story and the concept began in the tales Barrie told the sons of Mrs. Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, a woman Barrie loved. Barrie then published the story of Peter Pan in book form as Peter and Wendy (1911). The best of Barrie’s later works is Dear Brutus (1917), a haunting play that again brought the supernatural and fantasy to the London stage. Barrie died in 1937, bequeathing the copyright of Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, a hospital for children.
Considered a masterpiece since its first appearance on stage in 1904, Peter Pan is J. M. Barrie's most famous work and the greatest of all children's stories. While it is a wonderful fantasy for the young, Peter Pan, particularly in the novel form Barrie published in 1911, says something important to all of us. Here "the boy who wouldn't grow up" and his adventures with Wendy and the lost boys in the Neverland evoke a deep emotional response as they give form to our feelings about parents, boys and girls, the unknown, freedom, and responsibility. Humorous, satiric, filled with suspenseful cliff-hangers and bittersweet truths, Peter Pan works an indisputable magic on readers of all ages, making it a true classic of imaginative literature.
“Barrie wrote his fantasy of childhood, added another figure to our enduring literature, and thereby undoubtedly made one of the boldest bids for immortality of any writer. . . . It is a masterpiece.”—J. B. Priestley
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圖、文/文小妖 永無島,在現實裏,是一座永遠都不可能存在的小島。那裏太美,太夢幻,歡歌笑語不斷,有著童話故事裏廣為人知的仙子、海盜、美人魚……這些都是孩子幻想世界裏的最美存在。最重要的是,那裏還有很多人的童年偶像——彼得·潘。 《彼得·潘》是英國戲劇傢、小說傢...
評分童話都是大人寫的。當我們長大後,帶著一顆童心重讀那些兒時聽過的故事,纔能越明白大人所講的童話。 裏麵沒有一個討喜的角色,但也沒有哪個討人厭。Peter Pan甚至讓我咬牙切齒的,他是個傲慢、自負、健忘的傢夥,甚至我覺得還有點嗜血……就像每一個我們小時候那樣。...
評分《彼得潘》,我沒看過大陸版,隻看過梁實鞦翻譯的民國版。但我瀏覽瞭一下這裏的書評,我猜,大陸的譯本是個“潔本”。 這個潔本不能怪大陸,是英國的齣版方再版時把初版裏“兒童不宜”的東西刪去瞭。大陸譯本應該是譯自再版本。 抄幾段以前寫的書評,讓沒機會看初版本的讀者體...
評分童話都是大人寫的。當我們長大後,帶著一顆童心重讀那些兒時聽過的故事,纔能越明白大人所講的童話。 裏麵沒有一個討喜的角色,但也沒有哪個討人厭。Peter Pan甚至讓我咬牙切齒的,他是個傲慢、自負、健忘的傢夥,甚至我覺得還有點嗜血……就像每一個我們小時候那樣。...
評分所有的孩子都會長大,隻有一個孩子除外。他的名字叫作彼得•潘,他是一個會飛的男孩兒。 看到這句話的時候,我並不嫉妒他,我隻覺得有些悲哀。我不知道這是因為我已經不再相信童話,還是因為我其實很喜愛成長,盡管成長本身是一個蛻變的過程。 已經過瞭會相信童...
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好像自己看的是個小小黑黑的英文版本。每個孩子都有不想長大的念頭吧。
評分人人心中都有個彼得潘。
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評分不知道為什麼,這次重讀這本書的時候突然覺得Peter Pan是一個死去的小男孩的幽靈,這樣一想就覺得好傷心。以前讀這本書的時候隻見到男權女權,這一次突然意識到這本書充滿瞭死亡。
評分價值觀還是略陳腐瞭一些......
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