J. M. Barrie vs. George Eliot
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
J. M. Barrie
1860 – 1937
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 West End "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.
"How often is it a phantom woman who draws the man from the way he meant to go? So was man created, to hunger for the ideal that is above himself, until one day …"
George Eliot
1819 – 1880
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist, journalist and translator best known for realist novels such as Middlemarch, Adam Bede, and Silas Marner.
"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond t…"
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