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    Alice Sit By The Fire
    Alice Sit By The Fire
    Alice Sit By The Fire
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    Alice Sit By The Fire

    By J.M. Barrie

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    The works of playwright-novelist James M.Barrie (1860-1937) have delighted both young and old for a century. From Childhood he was determined to be a writer. "Alice Sit-by-the-Fire" was written by J.M. Barrie in 1905, the same year he wrote Peter Pan). The three-act play details the return of two parents, the Colonel & his wife Alice, from (I believe) a long voyage to India. They have left the care of their three children Amy, Cosmo and the baby to the Nurse. Alice finds Amy & Cosmo have grown up considerably; and the baby is a complete stranger to her mother. The possessive Nurse complicates the reunion. The play is a series of reversals and revelations. Misadventure follows in abundance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ.m.barrie
    Release dateDec 10, 2015
    ISBN9788892527935
    Alice Sit By The Fire
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    J.M. Barrie

    J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie (1860--1937) was a novelist and playwright born and educated in Scotland. After moving to London, he authored several successful novels and plays. While there, Barrie befriended the Llewelyn Davies family and its five boys, and it was this friendship that inspired him to write about a boy with magical abilities, first in his adult novel The Little White Bird and then later in Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 play. Now an iconic character of children's literature, Peter Pan first appeared in book form in the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, about the whimsical adventures of the eternal boy who could fly and his ordinary friend Wendy Darling.

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