Annäherung an James Matthew Barrie
von Heinz Günnewig
Vorwort
What a magnificent book! And to think Barrie has had to wait all this time to see such justice done to his work.
It is perhaps a shade ironic that this justice should stem from the partnership of a distinguished German professor
and an award-winning designer, but then Barrie´s story is full of irony. At the time of his death in 1937, he was
one of the most widely-read authors in the English-speaking world, but today his fame rests almost entirely on his
´terrible masterpiece´ Peter Pan. He was also the richest, despite having given all his royalties in Peter Pan to
the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in 1929, which only goes to demonstrate the huge popularity of his
other novels and plays, rightly remembered and celebrated in this splendid volume. Perhaps the greatest irony of
all is that, thanks to his gift, ´The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up´ continures to help so many other children to do just that.
Andrew Birkin, Wales, November 2009
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ISBN 978-2-87971-045-7
1. Auflage 2009
336 Seiten
Hardcover, Fadenheftung
Herausgeber und Verlag
Universität Luxembourg
Idee, Konzeption, Texte
Prof. Dr. Heinz Günnewig,
seit 2008 freier Mitarbeiter in der Fakultät für Sprachwissenschaften und Literatur, Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst und Erziehungswissenschaften der Universität Luxembourg
Buchgestaltung
Tom Diederich
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