The Little White Bird - by J. M. Barrie


The Little White Bird	by J. M. Barrie

Chapter 1
David And I Set Forth Upon A Journey
Chapter 2
The Little Nursery Governess
Chapter 3
Her Marriage, Her Clothes, Her Appetite, And An Inventory Of Her
Chapter 4
A Night-Piece
Chapter 5
The Fight For Timothy
Chapter 6
A Shock
Chapter 7
The Last Of Timothy
Chapter 8
The Inconsiderate Waiter
Chapter 9
A Confirmed Spinster
Chapter 10
Sporting Reflections
Chapter 11
The Runaway Perambulator
Chapter 12
The Pleasantest Club In London
Chapter 13
The Grand Tour Of The Gardens
Chapter 14
Peter Pan
Chapter 15
The Thrush's Nest
Chapter 16
Lock-Out Time
Chapter 17
The Little House
Chapter 18
Peter's Goat
Chapter 19
An Interloper
Chapter 20
David And Porthos Compared
Chapter 21
William Paterson
Chapter 22
Joey
Chapter 23
Pilkington's
Chapter 24
Barbara
Chapter 25
The Cricket Match
Chapter 26
The Dedication

This book (originally published in 1902) marks the first appearance of Peter Pan. One section gives give a condensed version of the text that later was expanded and elaborated to become Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. In this early version Peter Pan was a first-person narrative about a wealthy bachelor clubman's attachment to a little boy, David. Taking this boy for walks in Kensington Gardens, the narrator tells him of Peter Pan, who can be found in the Gardens at night. Peter Pan was first performed at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, in 1904 but the play had to wait several years for a definitive printed version and it did not appear as a narrative story until 1911. The book was titled Peter and Wendy.

Barrie was a Scottish playwright and novelist. The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889), contain fictional sketches of Scottish life. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theater, from 1930 until his death he was chancellor of the University of Edinburgh.