Author:James Matthew Barrie

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James Matthew Barrie (1860–1937)

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James Matthew Barrie

Works

Novels

• Better Dead, 1888
• Auld Licht Idylls, 1888
• When a Man's Single, 1888
• A Window in Thrums, 1889
• The Little Minister, 1891
• A Powerful Drug; and Other Stories, 1893
• A Lady's Shoe, 1894
• Sentimental Tommy, 1896
• Tommy and Grizel, 1900
• The Little White Bird, 1902 (This novel introduces the character "Peter Pan".)
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 1906
• Peter and Wendy, 1911
• Farewell Miss Julie Logan, 1927

Short Stories

• The Courting of T'nowhead's Bell
• The Inconsiderate Waiter
• My Brother Henry

Plays

• Richard Savage, 1891
• Jane Annie, 1893, (first act only, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the second.)
• The Professor's Love Story, 1894
• The Wedding Guest, 1900
• Quality Street, 1901
• The Admirable Crichton, 1902
• Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, 1904
• Walker, London, 1907
• What Every Woman Knows, 1908
• When Wendy Grew Up, 1908
• Der Tag, 1914
• Half Hours, 1914
• Shakespeare's Legacy, 1916
• Dear Brutus, 1917
• Echoes of the War, 1918
• Alice Sit-by-the-Fire, 1919
• Shall We Join the Ladies, 1927 (first act of an unfinished play)

Other works

• An Edinburgh Eleven, 1889
• A Holiday in Bed, and Other Sketches, 1892
• A Tillyloss Scandal, 1893
• Two of Them, 1893
• An Auld Licht Manse, and Other Sketches, 1893
• Allahakbarries C[ricket] C[lub], 1893
• Scotland's Lament, 1895
• My Lady Nicotine, 1896
• Margaret Ogilvy, 1896
• The Allahakbarrie Book of Broadway Cricket for 1899, 1899
• Life in a Country Manse, 1899
• George Meredith, 1909
• Charles Frohman. A Tribute, 1915
• Who was Sarah Findlay? by Mark Twain. With a Suggested Solution, 1917
• Courage, 1922
• Neil and Tintinnabulum, 1925
• The Greenwood Hat, 1930

Works about J. M. Barrie

• “Barrie, James Matthew” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Barrie, James Matthew” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1937, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.