Farewell Miss Julie Logan - J. M. Barrie

This selection of J M Barrie's work covers three different genres and
all the most telling themes found in his writing: Scotland, childhood,
fantasy and sentimentality, sexual anxiety, theatrical invention, social
comedy and proto-feminism.

The disturbing prose fable of The Little White Bird contains
the first and most original exploration of the Peter Pan theme,
properly set in the wider context of a middle-aged man's engagement with
creation, fantasy and loneliness-a theme which made Barrie world-famous
and haunted him for the rest of his life.

In a one-act play of scintillating satire, The Twelve-Pound Look
exposes the pomposities of male pride and public success in 1910 from
the point of view of an ex-wife unexpectedly returned as her
(be)knighted husband's typist.

Written in diary form and telling of an uncanny romance in a remote winter glen, Farewell Miss Julie Logan
evokes the author's fascination with longing, death and loss in a
novella which can stand with the stories of the supernatural and which
itself raises questions about the nature of romance fiction.

This volume offers an exciting reassessment of one of Scotland's most unusual and misrepresented writers.