Peter Pan

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Troll Communications L.L.C., Sep 2, 2002 - Juvenile Fiction - 48 pages
"Ever since Peter Pan flew in through Wendy Darling's nursery window and took her off to Never Land, Barrie's classic adventure story has thrilled and delighted theatregoers." "This new and acclaimed National Theatre version of the classic late has been lovingly and painstakingly researched and restored by John Caird and Trevor Nunn to Barrie's original intentions."--BOOK JACKET.

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Peter Pan
Susan E. Shebar
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Peter Pan
James Matthew Barrie
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arrow asleep bedroom began to fly began to shake boy jumped Captain Hook Captain James Hook captured chest close cried crocodile Darling children deck Fairy dust fell fight grew ground heard Nana bark help Tinker Bell hide Hook screamed Hook sneered Hook sprang Hook turned John and Michael keep the window live in Neverland Lost Boys heard mother and father mushroom chimney Nibs night overboard Pan and Tinker Peter and Tinker Peter laughed Peter Pan Peter scratched Peter sprang Peter stood pirates rushed SAN DIEGO COUNTY shadow ship six Lost Boys slowly Smee stay in Neverland stories Suddenly swung his sword tell Tiger Lily Tink Tinker Bell flew Tinker Bell shook Tinker Bell's light tiny light dashed told Tootles tried underground home waited walk the plank want to grow Wendy asked Wendy bird Wendy's wiggle window open

About the author (2002)

James Matthew Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan, was born on May 9, 1860, in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. His idyllic boyhood was shattered by his brother's death when Barrie was six. His own grief and that of his mother influenced the rest of his life. Through his work, he sought to recapture the carefree joy of his first six years. Barrie came to London as a freelance writer in 1885. His early fiction, Auld Licht Idylls (1888) and A Window in Thrums (1889), were inspired by his youth in Kirriemuir. After publishing a biography of his mother Margaret Ogilvy and the autobiographical novel Sentimental Tommy, about a boy living in a dream world (1896), he concentrated on writing plays. The Admirable Crichton (1902), the story of a butler who becomes king of a desert island, helped to establish Barrie's reputation as a playwright. Meanwhile, he began to relive his childhood by telling the first Peter Pan stories to the sons of his friend, Sylvia Llewellyn Davies. The play Peter Pan was first performed in 1904 and published as a novel seven years later. Its imaginative drama, featuring the eternal boy's triumph over the grownup Captain Hook, idealizes childhood and underscores adults' inability to regain it. These resonant themes made it a classic of world literature. Barrie's later work shows his increasingly cynical view of adulthood, particularly in Dear Brutus (1917). Often considered his finest play, it concerns nine men and women whose caprices destroy a miraculous opportunity to relive their lives. Barrie married the former Mary Ansell in 1894. They divorced in 1909, never having any children. Barrie died in London on June 19, 1937.

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TitlePeter Pan
Troll Illustrated Classics Series
AuthorJames Matthew Barrie
Illustrated byThomas Lewis
ContributorSusan E. Shebar
Editionabridged
PublisherTroll Communications L.L.C., 2002
ISBN0816774536, 9780816774531
Length48 pages
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Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General
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