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Hide-and-Seek with Angels: A Life of J.M. Barrie
by Lisa Chaney.
Hutchinson, 402 pp., £20, June 2005,0 09 179539 7 Show More
by Lisa Chaney.
Hutchinson, 402 pp., £20, June 2005,
“... small men have to be assertive and ambitious if they are to be taken seriously, and Barrie rose to the challenge with fanatical energy. Idleness was not part of the attraction of youth for him. He never stopped working, and he saw through that side of his nature too: ‘There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the ... ”