The Complete Works of J. M. Barrie (With Illustrations)
Peter Pan Mythology, Victorian Fantasy, Scottish Sketches, and Nostalgic Family DramasBy James Matthew Barrie
Length155h 39m
About this audiobook
The Complete Works of J. M. Barrie (With Illustrations) gathers the remarkable range of a writer too often reduced to Peter Pan. Alongside the enduring fantasies of Neverland, the volume represents Barrie's novels, plays, short stories, and essays, revealing his sustained preoccupation with childhood, memory, loss, theatricality, and the unstable boundary between imagination and adult experience. His style shifts deftly from lyrical fairy tale and whimsical comedy to sentimental realism, social observation, and psychologically nuanced drama. The illustrations complement this imaginative architecture, placing Barrie's work within the late-Victorian and Edwardian traditions of illustrated literature, children's fantasy, and popular theatre. Born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, James Matthew Barrie drew deeply upon provincial memory, Scottish identity, journalism, and the theatrical culture of London. His formative experience of family bereavement—particularly the death of his brother David—helped shape his recurring fascination with arrested youth and the persistence of the past. His friendships with the Llewelyn Davies family inspired the imaginative world associated with Peter Pan, while his career as a novelist, dramatist, and public literary figure encouraged a versatile, self-conscious art. This collection is recommended to readers seeking both the familiar enchantment and the neglected breadth of Barrie's achievement. It offers a valuable opportunity to encounter the author whole: playful yet elegiac, theatrical yet intimate, and consistently alert to the costs as well as the liberating possibilities of imagination.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length155 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 18, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Spanish Tragedy (Annotated)
2Peter Pan Adventures
3Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
4I. The Grand Tour of the Gardens
5II. Peter Pan
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6III. The Thrush's Nest
7IV. Lock-Out Time
8V. The Little House
9VI. Peter's Goat
10Peter and Wendy
11Chapter I. Peter Breaks Through
12Chapter II. The Shadow
13Chapter III. Come Away, Come Away!
14Chapter IV. The Flight
15Chapter V. The Island Come True
16Chapter VI. The Little House
17Chapter VII. The Home Under the Ground
18Chapter VIII. The Mermaids' Lagoon
19Chapter IX. The Never Bird
20Chapter X. The Happy Home
21Chapter XI. Wendy's Story
22Chapter XII. The Children are Carried Off
23Chapter XIII. Do You Believe in Fairies?
24Chapter XIV. The Pirate Ship
25Chapter XV. 'Hook or Me This Time'
26Chapter XVI. The Return Home
27Chapter XVII. When Wendy Grew Up
28Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
29Act I. The Nursery
30Act II. The Never Land
31Act III. The Mermaids' Lagoon
32Act IV. The Home Under the Ground
33Act V.
34When Wendy Grew Up
35Novels
36Better Dead
37Chapter I
38Chapter II
39Chapter III
40Chapter IV
41Chapter V
42Chapter VI
43Chapter VII
44Chapter VIII
45Chapter IX
46Chapter X
47When a Man's Single
48Chapter I. Rob Angus is Not a Free Man
49Chapter II. Rob Becomes Free
50Chapter III. Rob Goes Out Into the World
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