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Peter Pan

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1929
2004
1 time
See 17
1 - Peter breaks through
2 - The Shadow
3 - Come away, come away
4 - The Flight
5 - The Island come true
6 - The little House
7 - The Home under the ground
8 - The Mermaid's Lagoon
9 - The Never Bird
10 - The happy Home
11 - Wendy's Story
12 - The Children are carried off
13 - Do you believe in Fairies?
14 - The Pirate Ship
15 - "Hook or Me this time"
16 - The Return Home
17 - When Wendy grew up
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Copyright © 1929 J.M. Barrie (see comments)
All children, except one, grow up.
May contain spoilers
When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter's mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
Comments may contain spoilers
I bought this book around 1999.  I had never read it and thought it would be a good book to read to my daughter.  It was a little hard for her to follow so I never got more than one chapter into it.  I picked it up myself after watching the latest Peter Pan movie and read it.  This was just after reading Venus on the Halfshell by "Kilgore Trout".

Copyright note: In 1929 J. M. Barrie donated all rights in Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and this was confirmed in his will when he died in 1937.  He stipulated that the sum earned by the Hospital should never be revealed.  In 1987, fifty years after Barrie's death, the Hospital's rights expired under U.K. Copyright Law.  However, in 1988, a unique amendment was made to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act which restored royalty income from Peter Pan to the Hospital in perpetuity in the U.K.
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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, “Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!” This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

Of course they lived at 14 [their house number on their street], and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.

The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her. He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door.

Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.

Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been totting up. They were Mrs. Darling's guesses.

Wendy came first, then John, then Michael.

For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed. Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling's bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly. She wanted to risk it, come what might, but that was not his way; his way was with a pencil and a piece of paper, and if she confused him with suggestions he had to begin at the beginning again.

 

Added: 31-May-2004
Last Updated: 08-Apr-2020

Publications

 01-Oct-1991
Viking Press
Hardback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Oct-1991
Format:
Hardback
Pages*:
192
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Internal ID:
386
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-670-84180-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-670-84180-6
Country:
United States
Language:
English
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 01-Jan-1995
Barnes & Noble
Hardback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-1995
Format:
Hardback
Pages*:
272
Read:
Once
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
384
Publisher:
ISBN:
1-566-19745-7
ISBN-13:
978-1-566-19745-8
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Cover illustrated by A Woodward and with a picture gallery of 16 color plates by different artists illustrating the story.
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 30-Nov-2000
Simon & Schuster
Hardback
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Date Issued:
30-Nov-2000
Format:
Hardback
Pages*:
144
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
389
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-743-21449-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-743-21449-0
Country:
United States
Language:
English
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Notes and Comments:
 01-Oct-2003
Henry Holt & Company
Hardback
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Date Issued:
01-Oct-2003
Format:
Hardback
Pages*:
176
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
387
ISBN:
0-805-07245-4
ISBN-13:
978-0-805-07245-7
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Cover:
Book Cover
Notes and Comments:
 01-Nov-2003
Aladdin
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Date Issued:
01-Nov-2003
Pages*:
228
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
388
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-689-86691-7
ISBN-13:
978-0-689-86691-3
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Cover:
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Notes and Comments:
 11-Nov-2003
HarperFestival
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Date Issued:
11-Nov-2003
Pages*:
240
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
385
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-060-56307-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-060-56307-3
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
PETER PAN
the motion picture event

THE ORIGINAL STORY


REVISIT ENCHANTED NEVERLAND WITH
J.M. BARRIE's TIMELESS TALE

Join Wendy, John, and Michael Darling as they follow Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up, to a world where fairies live and children can fly.  But beware - danger abounds in this magical land of mermaids, Indians, and fairy dust.  Captin Hook and his pirate crew want all children to walk the plank, especially Peter Pan.

There is always an adventure to be had in Neverland.  So come along with the Darling children as they soar into the night sky - second to the right and straight on till morning!

DON'T MISS THESE OTHER PETER PAN BOOKS:

THE MOVIE STORYBOOK
ADVENTURES IN NEVERLAND
THE ADVENTURE BEGINS
WELCOME TO NEVERLAND
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Notes and Comments:
This book was a free gift with the purchase of the DVD of the 2003 movie version of Peter Pan.

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Author(s)

J M Barrie  
Birth: 09 May 1860 Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, UK
Death: 19 Jun 1937 London, England, UK

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