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Peter PanJ. M. Barrie

On the coverIn the Broad Walk you meet all the people who are worth knowing, Arthur Rackham, 1906

Peter Pan

1911 · England (Scotland) · Novel · ~180 pages

One night the boy who refuses to grow up flies into the Darling nursery and carries the children off to the Neverland, a place of pirates, fairies, mermaids, and lost boys. The immortal story of childhood and the ache of growing up.

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Why read it

Far stranger and more bittersweet than its cartoon fame suggests, a dazzling, melancholy fantasy about the price of never growing up. Enchanting and quietly heartbreaking.

Themes
SettingLondon & the Neverland

A cosy Edwardian nursery and the wild dreamland just beyond it, where every child’s imagination becomes a world of danger and delight.

About the author

J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) first created Peter Pan for the London stage, then in this novel; he gave the rights to a children’s hospital, where they remain.