Dear Brutus (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By J. M. Barrie

The intriguing Dear Brutus is reminiscent of Barrie’s famed Peter Pan, in that it traces a group of people who enter a magic wood. Here they are transformed into the people they might have become had they made different choices. After the characters confront themselves, they must return to their lives and face the choices they made in the past, good or bad.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Feb 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411440098

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.