Peter Pan (Wordsworth Collector's Editions) illustration Hardcover – September 14, 2018

by J.M. Barrie

Peter Pan by Sir James Matthew Barrie. The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, Wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as Captain Hook explains 'liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since, licking his lips for the rest of me'. After lots of adventures, the story reaches its exciting climax as Peter, Wendy and the children do battle with Captain Hook and his band. About our Collector's These new compact hardbacks will be cloth-bound, with matching coloured end papers, embossed gold and coloured blocking to enhance their beautiful, bespoke cover illustrations. The trim page size is 178 x 129mm.

Genres: Classics

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 17, 2023

About the author

James 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.

Reviews

[Fanny Meneses · Rating 3 out of 5]

hmmmm, otro libro q no debe ser para niños, muy triste indirectamente, literalmente quiero ser peter pan el hdp no envejece, pero también soy wendy teniendo q cuidar crías q no son mías m mato, also in an tinker bell, solo quiero q me amen de la manera en la que yo amo, o sea Peter pan es mi libro más personal, amo a tink en esta versión, me caga la versión de su franquicia pero creo q son casi iguales? idk me voy a matar me dejo con mas ganas de tener 10 años otra vez, y no tener que ser responsable de ningún otro ser humano que no sea yo, bye wey solo quiero vivir en neverland