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Little Blue Books # 307 Pocket Series 1924 A Tillyloss Scandal J.M. Barrie Haldeman-Julius Girard Kansas Wikipedia Little Blue Books are a series of small staple-bound books published from 1919 through 1978 by the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company of Girard, Kansas.[1]
A Tillyloss scandal.--How Gavin Birse put it to Mag Lowrie.--Life in a country manse.--Dite Deuchars.--The minister's gown.--The captain of the school.--A powerful drug.--Every man his own doctor.--Shutting a map; a note of warning.--An invalid in lodgings.--The mystery of time-tables.--Mending the clock.--The biggest box in the world.--The ...
John died of lung disease in 1959, at age 65. Peter, who called Peter Pan “that terrible masterpiece,” died of suicide in 1960, at age 63. Only Nicholas, the one who called Barrie “an ...
James Matthew Barrie is famous worldwide for his iconic creation, Peter Pan. Unfortunately, however, many of his other works have been undeservedly forgotten. This BBC Radio collection contains four of his lesser-known plays, revisited for radio, as well as a dramatisation of his beloved story of the boy who never grew up.
In the second part of our feature celebrating JM Barrie’s life and legacy, Gayle Ritchie explores the “dark side” of the Kirriemuir-born playwright and his work beyond Peter Pan
notion of ‘playing the game’. Barrie’s reverence for both games and storytelling is a manifestation of his desire to contest the devaluation of play consequent on 1 For the biographical information in this chapter I am indebted to Lisa Chaney’s excellent Hide-and-Seek with Angels: A Life of J.M. Barrie.
‘Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die.’ D. H. Lawrence. This fascinating and disturbing book unravels the subtle and deadly mixture of manipulation, fantasy and control with which J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, entangled a number of child victims. The most famous examples are the orphaned Llewellyn-Davies boys, but […]
