Peter Pan e Wendy

by J.M. Barrie

Em um misto de realidade e fantasia, Peter Pan leva os Irmãos Darling até a Terra do Nunca, um lugar fantástico onde as crianças nunca crescem, onde sereias, fadas, piratas e um crocodilo que faz "tic-toc-tic-toc" habitam. Neste clássico da literatura mundial, J. M. Barrie apresenta o mito do garoto que não queria crescer, e das aventuras e descobertas que ele faz durante sua jornada ao lado de Wendy, ao passo em que aprendem lições para uma vida toda sobre amizade, amor, responsabilidade e empatia.

244 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 18, 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.