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By: James M. Barrie

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James M. Barrie was not only the creator of Peter Pan and the other famous characters of that story. He was also a brilliant dramatist and the best of his theatre works are represented in this edition. Contents: The Admirable Crichton Quality Street What Every Woman Knows Dear Brutus Alice Sit-By-The-Fire

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Jazzybee Verlag

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384962935X

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9783849629359

Tommy And Grizel

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By: James M. Barrie

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Tommy And Grizel

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By: James M. Barrie

A novel to be liked, or resented, as you will, but not to be ignored. When "Sentimental Tommy" closed with two remarkable children just entering upon maturity, this sequel was foreshadowed. The scenes are in London and in Thrums; but the most critical incident happens on the Continent. The pith of it is the interior life of emotion in two characters, — a woman with the straightforward, independent spirit of a man, but with a genius for loving, and a chameleon-like man. This emotional relationship implies tragedy. But sweeter tragedy has seldom been written. Mr. Barrie's satisfying style and delicate humor throw rosy gleams even in the darkest places of the story.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849628817

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9783849628819

Historical Dictionary of American Theater

Modernism

By: James Fisher,Felicia Hardison Londré

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Historical Dictionary of American Theater

Modernism

By: James Fisher,Felicia Hardison Londré

This book covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1880-1930. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in America from the years following the end of the Civil War to the Golden Age of Broadway, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such diverse figures as William Gillette, Mrs. Fiske, George M. Cohan, Maude Adams, David Belasco, George Abbott, Clyde Fitch, Eugene O’Neill, Texas Guinan, Robert Edmond Jones, Jeanne Eagels, Susan Glaspell, The Adlers and the Barrymores, Tallulah Bankhead, Philip Barry, Maxwell Anderson, Mae West, Elmer Rice, Laurette Taylor, Eva Le Gallienne, and a score of others. Entries abound on plays of all kinds, from melodrama to the newly-embraced realistic style, ethnic works (Irish, Yiddish, etc.), and such diverse forms as vaudeville, circus, minstrel shows, temperance plays, etc. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism covers the history of modernist American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 2,000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the American Theater in its greatest era.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538107864

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9781538107867

When a Man's Single - A Tale of Literary Life

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By: James M. Barrie

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When a Man's Single - A Tale of Literary Life

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By: James M. Barrie

The career of a young Scotchman' "Rob Angus," is the subject of this novel. He is unusually gifted and clever, though born among the working people of a little Scotch village. His literary career is interfered with for awhile from his having to assume the care of his sister's little child, but the little thing meets with a sad death, while attempting to carry him the letter which offers him a position on an English newspaper. The child's death sets him free, and he goes to Silchester and becomes a reporter on the Daily Mirror. His experience as a reporter and reviewer is quite amusing, and his love affair is full of interest. This is the annotated edition including a rare and very detailed essay about the life and works of the author.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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384962868X

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9783849628680

Sentimental Tommy

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By: James M. Barrie

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Sentimental Tommy

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By: James M. Barrie

This is the annotated edition including a rare and very detailed essay about the life and works of the author. To turn from George Elliot's Tom Tulliver to Sentimental Tommy is to encounter the maladies of the soul. It is to leave the firm and solid ground of ordinary boyhood for the quicksands of a character that is almost feminine in its subtlety, hard to understand, and harder still to love. Tommy, in his shifting moods, his substitution of feeling for principle, his delight in his own exceeding cleverness, is at times more girl than boy. Even his kindness of heart, his gentleness, his constitutional disregard of truth, his supreme emotionalism, his desire to be masterful, not by riding roughly and gayly through life, but by holding and handling and hurting the hearts of those who love him—all these interesting attributes savor a little of femininity. Only his peculiar innocence, untarnished, almost untouched by his broad and premature knowledge of evil, proclaims him still the boy. It would seem at first sight that London ought to be a better field than Thrums for so versatile a genius, yet it finds its really harmonious setting in the Scotch hamlet. Even the most wonderful of little scamps is lost in the vast scampishness of the world's greatest city; but in Thrums Tommy's remarkable gifts win instant recognition. His one grand London exploit at the supper for juvenile criminals is not half so telling as his simpler device of outwitting the schoolmaster by cutting off Francie Crabbe's curls. Nor could he, in the London slums, have lived so thrillingly that double life—by day a schoolboy, insignificant, unknown; by night, under the friendly moon, a royal exile, whoso handful of brave followers have sworn to restore to him the throne of his ancient and ill-fated race ...

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849628744

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9783849628741

The Little Minister

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By: James M. Barrie

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The Little Minister

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By: James M. Barrie

The "Little Minister" is a light comedy, filled with a delicate romance and brightened with the humors of Thrums. It is a light comedy, despite the ambitious strain of the love passages, and the entertainment it affords is, on the whole, an exercise of one's sentiments, not one's intellect. The "Little Minister" is a book in which much that happens has no better reason for happening than that the author wishes it to. When we read the story in an idle hour we do not quibble at it for abandoning logic and pleasing us, without regarding the rules of the game. But such shortcomings constitute the difference between a pleasant book and a great book.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849628736

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9783849628734

Auld Licht Idylls

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By: James M. Barrie

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Auld Licht Idylls

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By: James M. Barrie

A collection of stories of Scottish life, charmingly written, full of the grace and humor that characterize this writer's productions. If there is a drawback to the pleasure of reading them, it is the want of a glossary to give the benighted English reader some notion of the meaning of Scotch "wut." We regard the 'Auld Licht Idylls' as having paved the way for Mr. Barrie's subsequent books. The Auld Lichts were a section of godly professors who seceded from a secession. They prided themselves on the purity of their gospel faith, on the consistency of their walk and conversation, and above all on the stringency of their ceremonial observances. That they could keep a minister for themselves in the paltry townlet of Thrums was the crowning proof of their zeal and earnestness ...

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849628671

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9783849628673

My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke

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By: James M. Barrie

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My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke

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By: James M. Barrie

My Lady Nicotine "—a book that suggests but is very unlike " The Reveries of a Bachelor." The former is urban : the latter is provincial. A briar pipe filled with Arcadia Mixture starts the reveries in the one ; a hearth fire, in the other. The five bachelors in " My Lady Nicotine " seem to be utterly dissimilar in tastes and feelings—and have only one bond of union, their common love for the famous Arcadia Mixture. The solemnity with which they treat their pipes; their assured superiority to everybody outside of the circle which knows and appreciates that mysterious brand of tobacco ; the sentimental selfishness of their bachelor existence, and the delicate humor with which the quiet episodes are narrated—these are some of the charming qualities of the book. But the crowning humor of it is that the story is told by one of their number who boldly announces in the first chapter that he has married, and his wife has won him from his pipe and his comrades. He cheaply moralizes on their enslavement, and then in reveries calls up the happy days when he smoked with them. The closing chapter is a most subtle piece of writing. The narrator praises his constancy to his promise never to smoke again, and adds: " I have not even any craving for the Arcadia now, though it is a tobacco that should only be smoked by our greatest men." Then he confesses that when his wife is asleep and all the house is still, he sits with his empty briar in his mouth, and listens to the taps of a pipe in the hands of a smoker (whom he has never seen) on the other side of the wall. " When the man through the wall lights up I put my cold pipe in my mouth and we have a quiet hour together.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849628728

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9783849628727

Echoes Of The War

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By: James M. Barrie

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Echoes Of The War

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By: James M. Barrie

It is a common tribute to Sir Barrie that he is whimsical. We might repeat that tribute when speaking of this volume, Echoes of the War, but hasten to add that this time it is not the same kind as that which delights us so in "A Kiss for Cinderella" or "Peter Pan." There is less froth and more substance, though this does not imply by any means that the lightness of touch is not there. The four one act plays contained in this book are of the war, but not about the war, for their interest centers not in those who go, but in those whose dear ones go. Mingled with the khaki that flits thru the pages is the black of mourning, and once we catch the sheen of a wedding dress. And there are gray hairs and worn faces that contrast with the eager-eyed, newly-commissioned young second lieutenant, and grave voices as well as gay. In plot the four plays are distinct and individual, but this they have in common, that they are Barrie at his best.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849629295

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9783849629298

The great Pegram mystery - an adventure of Sherlock Holmes

cleansings, comments and notes by Ellery Smith

By: Luke Sharp,Ellery Smith,James M. Barrie,Robert Barr

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The great Pegram mystery - an adventure of Sherlock Holmes

cleansings, comments and notes by Ellery Smith

By: Luke Sharp,Ellery Smith,James M. Barrie,Robert Barr

Two short stories, two parodies of Sherlock Holmes by two famous writers, both close friends of Conan Doyle. In the first case, Robert Barr presents Holmes and Watson investigating an unexplained murder; in the second case, James M. Barrie (author of Peter Pan) invites us to an evening meeting with Holmes and his publisher, Mr. Doyle. Cleansings, comments and notes by Ellery Smith

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Albicant Press

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0994073216

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9780994073211

Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens

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By: James M. Barrie

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Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens

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By: James M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie tells the first adventures of Peter Pan in the form of a fairy story, settles the first questions of children in regard to their advent into the world, by picturing a pre-existence on an island in fairyland. Barrie's observation of life is so thoroughly that of the artist that there is about ten times as much imagery in the book as in the average child's story. The illustrations by Arthur Rackham are no less genuinely artistic.

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125

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849629082

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9783849629083

The Little White Bird

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By: James M. Barrie

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The Little White Bird

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By: James M. Barrie

Where did Peter Pan come from? There is a very general conception that he stepped from Mr. Barrie's day-dreams straight upon the boards. But those who remember that delicate piece of sentiment, "The Little White Bird, or Adventures in Kensington Gardens" will find him already grown to his eternal youth there. In the story that the lonely old bachelor tells the boy David, Peter Pan is the same lad, whose "age is a week" and who "escaped from being human when he was seven days old; he escaped by the window and flew back to the Kensington Gardens," where, like all children, he had been a bird before he was born; and he lives in Kensington Gardens, which is the Never Never Land of "The Little White Bird.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849628868

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9783849628864

Pop! Lit For Kids (Set 2)

By: WS Education

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Pop! Lit For Kids (Set 2)

By: WS Education

Taking classic stories from Asia and the West, Pop! Lit for Kids reimagines them into easy-to-read stories that provide the perfect introduction to classic tales. The most well-loved stories from around the world have been adapted into a form that will excite and entertain children everywhere. Readers can embark on new adventures with famous beloved storybook characters. In addition, the books come to life with augmented reality features, giving readers an enhanced experience that they'll never forget!

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400

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World Scientific

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9811246033

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9789811246036

Peter Pan

By: James M. Barrie

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Peter Pan

By: James M. Barrie

Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up or Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel, respectively. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. The play and novel were inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. Barrie continued to revise the play for years after its debut; the novel reflects one version of the story.

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Simon and Schuster

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1633557235

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9781633557239

Book's by James M. Barrie

My Best Plays

My Best Plays

Tommy And Grizel

Tommy And Grizel

Historical Dictionary of American Theater

Historical Dictionary of American Theater

When a Man's Single - A Tale of Literary Life

When a Man's Single - A Tale of Literary Life

Sentimental Tommy

Sentimental Tommy

The Little Minister

The Little Minister

Auld Licht Idylls

Auld Licht Idylls

My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke

My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke

Echoes Of The War

Echoes Of The War

The great Pegram mystery - an adventure of Sherlock Holmes

The great Pegram mystery - an adventure of Sherlock Holmes

Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens

Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens

The Little White Bird

The Little White Bird

Pop! Lit For Kids (Set 2)

Pop! Lit For Kids (Set 2)

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

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