James Matthew Barrie

James Matthew Barrie was a British writer known for his plays and novels, and his creation of Peter Pan has had a lasting influence. This site holds three of his works, including Echoes of the War, a free public-domain book, and Better Dead. Judging from the works listed here, his writing often touches on the echoes of war and on life and death, shifting between light imagination and grim reality, with a clear sense of drama and irony. Under the common category of inspirational growth, he is linked to the themes of refusing to grow up and facing the cost of maturity found in Peter Pan. Public information about the details of his life is limited, so they are not elaborated here; readers can sense the style of late Victorian and early twentieth-century English literature, in which fantasy and sentiment intertwine, through his works.