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JM Barrie character has inspired a large number of plays, books and films. For the sake of the whole story, however, is rather sinister Last summer I was walking on the beach at Brighton. Men of a certain age accelerated in scooter or skates, a guy just the visible face of 60 bravely bounced the ball down on a pogo stick. In shelters, retirees from piercings. "What is happening?" I wondered. "Did not you know?" Said my brother-in-law. "It is back to Neverland."

deterred by Mabel Lucie Attwell style of storytelling opportunities, I have never read

Peter Pan

as a child, but there was a house Wendy in the Web of our garden, and the boy who would not grow up flying through the editions of the season

Disney

Time

, a veteran American teenager of the time James Dean. Of teaching experience, I know the Disney version of "kiddie lit" classic long usurped the books. However,

Peter Pan was twice overthrown, not replace only the films but behind the scenes knowledge of how he came to write.

The story begins in infancy James Matthew Barrie in Kirriemuir. When I was seven, his older brother David died in a skating accident. His mother took the bed, too depressed to interact with other children. Barrie Young did his best to get his attention distracted by calling her pleasure and consciously through his dead brother. But David was always going to win because he was destined to remain forever 12 years, while Barrie was sentenced to grow. may be a surprise to him that this education scars. Its characteristic is the enthusiasm with which his books know how to exploit past. His eyes saw what made his hands. Barrie has a portrait of the author, as such, a man whose life takes the paper from the notebook event and to register. There was little I did not know about the guilt of the author.

When you view or read about the life of Barrie, finds an unlikely curious. There is a feeling that the time people without being hampered by the knowledge of the inhibition. Already a very successful writer in 1897, while walking in Kensington Gardens, London, Barrie befriended young Llewelyn Davies boys (five years, George, and younger brothers John and Peter, Michael and later became "Nico"). Barrie was not so happily married to actress Mary Ansell, who themselves had no children. Your marriage was never consummated. soon met the beautiful young mother Sylvia and her husband is also unfortunate, Arthur. Barrie has become indispensable for boys, a playmate and storyteller. George seemed the favorite. For the mother, who had at least one good friend and confidant of what makes him the father is a bit opaque. When Arthur died of cancer of the jaw, Barrie has helped the family financially, send boys from Eton. As the children grew, his interest turned to George Michael for young people. Ansell Barrie left to a young writer Gilbert Cannan. When Sylvia died of cancer, Barrie became guardian of children. Then George Llewelyn Davies died on the Western Front during the First World War and after the war, Michael took his own life, drowning in the arms of a friend from Oxford. Barrie never recovered from the loss. What was the motivation Barrie still uncertain. He was "in love" with George Michael and then? Was he trying to return to his own childhood through them? Is it love or lust after Sylvia? Nobody knows. Which facilitated the friendship was Barrie zest for fantasy combined with a sense of self-check on the man. The distance that hunger for the company which was his own - and "the tragedy of the boys -.

However, his friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family have been several versions of Barrie's story of Pan Peter The classic stories of lost innocence and without heart, and is the key word was seen as the age Golden children's literature, this series of great works from Water children Winnie the Pooh . Although complex, eccentric and enigmatic, these books also evoke an enchanted silence. we now know a lot about the story behind Peter Pan is mostly a single writer. It can be difficult to give up all the myths of glory has gone, and I see Andrew Birkin The Lost Boys

(1978) was promoted nostalgia for the decades devoted drama British television. Brilliance of the program stems from the commitment of both the accuracy and Birkin knowledge of the truth must be something hidden from us somewhere to play hide and seek among the manuscripts and letters. Note too perfect performance, especially Ian Holm as Barrie's performance. The care and patience of the room, combining the richness of a novel and the virtues of the theater with the resources of television (voice-over, the use of the landscape) are qualities that are hard to find now British television. Holm starred in two of Barrie and Lewis Carroll, most recently and most improbable, Johnny Depp almost followed in his footsteps, serving in both the Mad Hatter, and Mark Foster Search Neverland

(2004), the author of

Peter Pan Neverland

submitted the same story The Lost Boys , but this time as a sweet romantic fable. All strange and fascinating true story softened - not the spirit of Arthur Llewelyn Davies, Barrie no thoughts of blame for the failure of his marriage, no interest in children as children, there is no Barrie complexities vision sad and wonderful. Instead, there is only an imagination wet summer and a hymn about the love unspoken,

Brief Encounter with

Billy Liar

dream trips thrown in. There are many children let off steam, but no scene that lasts long enough to accommodate complexity. And the power of the strangeness of Barrie escapes, leaving only enormous damage a young mother die and leave their children.

As life
, is the version of the story you choose to score. There are at least six potential candidates: boy Survivors of Black Lake Island