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PeterPan: Annotated
“All children grow up. All except one.” That special child is Peter Pan, and since making his debut on the stage in 1904, this eternal youth has carried boys and girls off to magical, marvelous Neverland. It’s a trip that all kids want to make, and with this easy-to-read version of the classic, everyone can fly “second to the right, and straight on till morning” with Peter. Along with Wendy, John, and Michael Darling, they’ll meet the fairy Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys, and the menacing Captain Hook. It’s a tale as ageless as its beloved hero. Peter Pan has fascinated and delighted readers of all ages for more than a century and entered our collective consciousness like few other books. Like other great archetypal stories, Peter Pan addresses the eternal how to avoid our greatest pain, which is mortality; how to experience life rather than look at it as a bystander; and how to connect to others and what it means to belong. Buzzing with fairies and children who can fly, in Barrie’s Neverland Peter Pan defeats Captain Hook and rescues Wendy and the Lost Boys who return to live their lives even while he stays forever young. That is the great lesson of Peter that we free those we love to find true and genuine connection.
- GenresClassics
131 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 14, 2020
About the author
J.M. Barrie
2,100 books2,181 followersJames Matthew Barrie 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.
The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism for a newspaper in Nottingham and contributed to various London journals before moving there in 1885. His early Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889) contain fictional sketches of Scottish life representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next decade, Barrie continued to write novels, but gradually, his interest turned towards the theatre.
In London, he met Llewelyn Davies, who inspired him about magical adventures of a baby boy in gardens of Kensington, included in The Little White Bird, then to a "fairy play" about this ageless adventures of an ordinary girl, named Wendy, in the setting of Neverland. People credited this best-known play with popularizing Wendy, the previously very unpopular name, and quickly overshadowed his previous, and he continued successfully.
Following the deaths of their parents, Barrie unofficially adopted the boys. He gave the rights to great Ormond street hospital, which continues to benefit.
The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism for a newspaper in Nottingham and contributed to various London journals before moving there in 1885. His early Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889) contain fictional sketches of Scottish life representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next decade, Barrie continued to write novels, but gradually, his interest turned towards the theatre.
In London, he met Llewelyn Davies, who inspired him about magical adventures of a baby boy in gardens of Kensington, included in The Little White Bird, then to a "fairy play" about this ageless adventures of an ordinary girl, named Wendy, in the setting of Neverland. People credited this best-known play with popularizing Wendy, the previously very unpopular name, and quickly overshadowed his previous, and he continued successfully.
Following the deaths of their parents, Barrie unofficially adopted the boys. He gave the rights to great Ormond street hospital, which continues to benefit.
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June 28, 2024
Aduh aku sudah mencoba buat baca buku ini tp DNF huhu ga sangguppp ini terlalu klasik dan menurutku buku ini bosenin bgt sih, to memang ada beberapa bagian yang bikin kepo. Ikustrasinya juga cantik kalo versi terjemahan indo
June 20, 2024
If Clockwork orange was for kids.
January 31, 2024
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
I didn't love this story as much as I wanted to and I'm not sure why. It is a wonderful and magical story. Neverland is the ultimate dreamland, full of fun, games, no responsibilities, and excitement yet also it's a dangerous place of adventures and make believe. Peter Pan is the only one who never seems effected by the limitations of Neverland. Such as pretending to eat and not thinking death is permanent. I'm sure there levels of symbolism, deeper meanings and truths that I should be focusing on and learning from but I'm not. Peter Pan is definitely the ultimate child, he is selfish, unfocused, forgetful, and short-sighted. He has no idea of what he has lost in his desperate efforts to stay young forever. But we as the readers understand and feel for him. The ending is bittersweet, we get to experience the fullness of out lives and Peter will never experience it.
I didn't love this story as much as I wanted to and I'm not sure why. It is a wonderful and magical story. Neverland is the ultimate dreamland, full of fun, games, no responsibilities, and excitement yet also it's a dangerous place of adventures and make believe. Peter Pan is the only one who never seems effected by the limitations of Neverland. Such as pretending to eat and not thinking death is permanent. I'm sure there levels of symbolism, deeper meanings and truths that I should be focusing on and learning from but I'm not. Peter Pan is definitely the ultimate child, he is selfish, unfocused, forgetful, and short-sighted. He has no idea of what he has lost in his desperate efforts to stay young forever. But we as the readers understand and feel for him. The ending is bittersweet, we get to experience the fullness of out lives and Peter will never experience it.
June 26, 2023
OUR FIRST CHAPTER BOOK IS FINISHED!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOO GO 301!!!!!
March 17, 2024
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