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J. M. Barrie-"A Window In Thrums"-Circa 1900's-Mershon Co-New York-4" X 6"-220 pages-hardcover book-Signed By Author.Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937), more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist. He is best remembered for creating Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, whom he based on his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys. He is also credited with popularizing the name "Wendy", which was uncommon (especially for girls) in both Britain and America before he gave it to the heroine of Peter Pan. He was made a baronet in 1913; his baronetcy was not inherited. He was made a member of the Order of Merit in 1922.Other than Peter Pan, Barrie's best known works are his early Thrums stories, Auld Licht Idylls (1888), A Window in Thrums (1889) and The Little Minister (1891). Literary criticism of these works has been unfavourable, tending to disparage these early writings as sentimental and nostalgic depictions of a parochial Scotland far from the realities of the industrialized nineteenth century, but they were popular enough to establish Barrie as a popular writer in the UK even before Peter Pan made him a household name. The book has been signed opposite the Contents page by J. M. Barrie with a fountain pen in blue........................BOTH BOOK AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN USED CONDITION..................
