The British dramatist and novelist Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) is best known for his play Peter Pan. James M. Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, on May 9, 1860, the son of a poor, hardworking weaver. Influenced by his mother's inter...
If Sir James M. Barrie had written no play other than Peter Pan (1904), the extraordinary and enduring popularity of this single work would testify to his talents as a dramatist. As it stands, however, the more than forty plays he wrote also manifest his...
If Sir James M. Barrie had written no play other than Peter Pan (1904), the extraordinary and enduring popularity of this single work would testify to his talents as a dramatist. As it stands, however, the more than forty plays he wrote also manifest his...
by Richard Trubo Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, Chicago Pages: 320 * Price: $27.50 Courage, as defined by Webster's Dictionary, is "the attitude of facing and dealing with anything recognized as difficult, or painful, instead of withdrawing from it; also the courage of one's...
Courage, generosity rise above floods Inmates freed to run for lives; dinghy rescues scores of residents in Mozambique By BARRY HATTONAssociated Press Sunday, March 12, 2000 Chokwe, Mozambique -- With a giant wall of water bearing down on this town,...
THE BIG GIRLSBy Susanna Moore Alfred A. Knopf, 224 pages, $24 You’ve heard of the unreliable narrator, the antihero, the evil twin. Now meet the enigmatic heroine. Louise Forrest, the watery and tentative central figure of Susanna Moore’s The Big Girls, is a prison psychiatrist—a...
Fifty years later, the man who first stood on the roof of the world lamented how Mount Everest had changed since his historic summit."It is hardly mountaineering; more like a conducted tour," Sir Edmund Hillary told reporters in Katmandu in 2003, celebrating the anniversary of...
