Questions tagged [j-m-barrie]

Questions about the Scottish novelist and playwright James Matthew Barrie (1860 – 1937) and his works. He is best known as the creator of Peter Pan.

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Two Questions About Peter Pan (Grammar Term and French Heraldry Term), J. M Barrie novel and not play [closed]

The first unknown sentence (Chapter 5): Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was ...
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Was Captain Hook an Etonian in the original text?

The character Captain Hook, main protagonist of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, definitely attended a British public school: Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date ...
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What was Captain Hook's name before losing his hand?

In J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, what was Captain Hook's name before losing his hand?
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