J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The real story behind Peter Pan

by Andrew Birkin

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Prop2gether | Jan 6, 2010 |

Andrew Birken does a great job describing the enchanting life of J.M. Barrie using interviews and actual letters from family and friends. He presents the Lost Boys life as a sad and wonderful life, with Barrie taking on the role of gaurdian of the boys in the Davies family after the tragic death of their parents. (

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EllenH | Sep 29, 2009 |

This book became my undergraduate thesis topic, and I'm absolutely smitten. Birkin's masterful retelling of the relationship between Barrie and the LlD boys is fascinating. Plus, the book contains a second sort of narrative, one made up of over 300 photographs alongside the text, based primarily on primary sources.

Truly a wonderful story. I'm so glad Yale published this nearly exact copy of the original edition. (

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J. M. Barrie

Peter Llewelyn Davies

H. G. Wells

Jerome K. Jerome

Peter Pan

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Kensington Gardens, London, England, UK

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The Lost Boys (1978 ∙ IMDb)

Finding Neverland (2004 ∙ IMDb)

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To My Mother

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On April 5th, 1960, a middle-aged publisher, Peter Llewelyn Davies, left the Royal Court Hotel, London, crossed Sloane Square, walked down into the local underground station and threw himself beneath an on-coming train.

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J.M. Barrie, novelist, playwright, and author of "Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up", led a life almost as magical and interesting as his famous creation. Childless in his marriage, Barrie grew close to the five young boys of the Llewelyn Davies family, ultimately becoming their guardian and devoted surrogate father when they were orphaned. Andrew Birkin draws extensively on a vast range of material by and about Barrie, including notebooks, memoirs, and hours of recorded interviews with the Llewelyn Davies family and their circle, to describe Barrie's life and the wonderful world he created for the boys. Originally published in 1979, this illustrated account is reissued with a new preface to mark the release of "Neverland", the film of Barrie's life, and the centenary of "Peter Pan".

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Childless in his marriage, Barrie grew close to the five young boys of the Llewelyn Davies family, ultimately becoming their guardian and devoted surrogate father. This illustrated account is reissued with a new preface to mark the release of Neverland, the film of Barrie's life, and the centenary of Peter Pan.… (more)