The Annotated Peter Pan
A 20th Century, Childrens Classics, Childrens book. I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be? J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan...
One hundred years after J. M. Barrie published the novel Peter and Wendy, Maria Tatar revisits a story that, like Alice in Wonderland, bridges the generations, animating both adults and children with its kinetic energy. The adventures of the Darling children with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell in Neverland are the seminal tale of escape and fantasy. Inspired by Barrie's real-life adventures with the five Llewelyn Davies boys he adopted, the story of Peter Pan has a deep and controversial history of its own that comes alive in Tatar's new edition. This brilliantly designed volume—with period photographs, full-color images by iconic illustrators, commentary on stage and screen versions, and an array of supplementary material, including Barrie's screenplay for a silent film—will draw readers into worlds of incandescent beauty, flooding them with the radiance of childhood wonder and the poignancy of what we...
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- Pages: 504 pages
- ISBN: 9780393066005 / 393066002
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Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children. J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan // To die will be an awfully big adventure. J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan // Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan //
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried,... Before I get into the review... it took me forever to go through all the editions of Peter Pan listed on Goodreads. While I suppose it's not too important to get the right version, I was shocked at how many there were, as well as that this was a longer series with multiple books. I guess I always knew that, but when I read it, it was... I absolutely love the movie Finding Neverland and always felt a bit stupid for not having read the story that inspired it. Peter Pan turned out to be exactly what I thought it would be: A rich and extremely imaginary fairy tale with some surprisingly brutal scenes and questionable morals that definitely have to be seen within its time...
