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2004 Modern Library Paperback Edition
Introduction copyright © 2004 by Anne McCaffreyBiographical note and reading group guide copyright © 2004by Random House, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-AmericanCopyright Conventions. Published in the United States byModern Library, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously inCanada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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eISBN: 978-1-58836-420-3
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J. M. BARRIE
James Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, on May 9, 1860, the seventh living child and youngest son of David Barrie, a hand-loom weaver, and Margaret Ogilvy. The death of Margaret’s favorite child, David, in an ice-skating accident played an important role in shaping Barrie’s character. Hoping to ease his mother’s overwhelming grief, the six-year-old Barrie attempted to take David’s place in his mother’s heart. Pleasing his mother would become a guiding principle in Barrie’s life.
While still at school, the young theater-loving Barrie decided to become a writer. His family persuaded him to continue his education at Edinburgh University, where he could study literature under the famous scholar David Masson. Barrie began to work as a freelance dramatic critic and book reviewer for an Edinburgh newspaper even before he earned his M.A. degree in 1882.
After graduation, Barrie worked for nearly two years at the Nottingham Journal while continuing to publish ever more widely in quality newspapers and magazines. In 1885 he went to London, determined to live by his pen and to make his mother proud of him. He began to smoke heavily, pacing his rooms and writing feverishly. This overwork paid off financially and personally as he began to regularly place articles in a number of publications and to gain a reputation among literary lights and society men as a “rising young author.” Barrie continued to haunt the theater for professional and social reasons. He worshipped the beautiful actresses he saw onstage, yet his diminutive stature (he stood just over five feet tall) made him painfully shy and insecure with women.
Barrie’s ambition to be a great author led him to try novels, yet his achievement in this venture, too, was limited at fir ............

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