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Peter Pan (1911) (edit title/settings)

or, Peter Pan and Wendy

by J. M. Barrie (Author) (edit contributors)

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It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the backyard. The poor dog was barking, for she could smell danger. And she was right — this was the night that Peter Pan would take the Darling children on the most breath-taking adventure of their lives, to a... read more

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Act I
The play begins in the Darling's night nursery. Nana, a Newfoundland, is in the nursery getting ready for the children, as she is their nanny. The act next introduces Michael, the youngest of the Darling children. Michael refuses a bath, but is forced to bathe while being supervised... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Act I
The play begins in the Darling's night nursery. Nana, a Newfoundland, is in the nursery getting ready for the children, as she is their nanny. The act next introduces Michael, the youngest of the Darling children. Michael refuses a bath, but is forced to bathe while being supervised by Nana. Mrs. Darling believes that she sees a face in the window, but no one is there when she goes to the sill.
John, the second eldest, and Wendy, the eldest, enter. They announce that they have been performing an act where Wendy plays as mother and John plays as father. In this act Wendy informs John that he has received a new baby girl, John is displeased with a girl and prefers a boy. Wendy is insulted by this.
Mr. Darling blows into the room, quite distressed. He cannot tie his tie. Mrs. Darling saves the day. When the boys are told to take medicine, Mr. Darling makes a point of telling the boys that he quite enjoys taking his medicine, so they should quite enjoy taking theirs. Wendy innocently indulges her father's boasting, and fetches his medicine so he can take it in front of the boys. Not being as keen on his medicine as he insisted, Mr. Darling dupes Michael into taking his medicine without taking his own. He quickly looses face with his children. To regain what he lost, he "plays a joke" on Nana, by placing his medicine in her milk.
Mrs. Darling informs Mr. Darling that she found a boy in the room a few nights prior, and during his escape she managed to capture his shadow. She rolled it up and stored it in a drawer. Mr. Darling decides to have it priced at an auction the next day.
Nana goes to take a drink of the milk left for her and quietly refuses it when she tastes the medicine. Mrs. Darling, perplexed by Nana's lack of interest, smells the milk and discovers the medicine. She goes to Nana and comforts her. Mr. Darling becomes infuriated with the prospect that a mere dog should be coddled while he, the "bread winner" is not. He tricks Nana into coming to him and chains her up outside, against the will of his wife and children.
In the night, Peter and Tinkerbell arrive, looking for Peter's shadow. Wendy wakes and finds Peter trying to put his shadow back on with a bar of soap. She helps Peter sew on his shadow. Wendy falls for Peter rather quickly, asking him for a kiss, but he, being a young boy from Never Land with only lost boys as companions, does not know what a kiss is. Instead of a kiss, she gives him a thimble.
Peter convinces Wendy to come to Never Land and be a mother to the lost boys. She convinces him to take Michael and John along. Peter sprinkles fairy dust on them, teaches them to fly and right after Liza, the house maid, comes to the door with Nana. The children hide. Liza, looking into the room, notices nothing askew, Nana on the other hand, does. Nana, however, is forced once more to leave the house.
Wendy, Michael, and John practice flying a little bit more and then they fly out the window to Never Land, right as Nana leads Mr. and Mrs. Darling back home.

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  • “Second to the right, and straight on till morning.”
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  • “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
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  • “Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.”
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  • “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting."”
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  • “She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.”
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  • first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
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  • “No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don't believe in fairies,'there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”
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  • Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact; not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distance between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed.
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  • We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
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  • It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can't) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her.
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  • 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.
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  • They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this.
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First Sentence edit see section history

All children, except one, grow up.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapter Page

Foreword xi
1 Peter Breaks Through 1
2 The Shadow 14
3 Come Away, Come Away! 28
4 The Flight 49
5 The Island Come True 64
6 The Little House 81
7 The Home Under the Ground 95
8 The Mermaids' Lagoon 105
9 The Never Bird 124
10 The Happy Home 130
11 Wendy's Story 140
12 The Children Are Carried Off 152
13 Do You Believe in Fairies? 160
14 The Pirate Ship 173
15 "Hook or Me This Time" 184
16 The Return Home 199
17 When Wendy Grew Up 212

Series & Lists edit see section history

This book is in Penguin Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
This is book 1 of 14 in Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics. (publisher series)

Followed by The Secret Garden.

This is book 427 of 986 in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Paul Street Boys, and followed by Cautionary Tales for Children.

This book is in Modern Library Classics. (edition-based publisher list)

Preceded by The Wind in the Willows, and followed by Mr. Majeika.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. J. M. Barrie (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Anne McCaffrey (Illustrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1911
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Page Count: 267

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PZ8 .B27
  • Dewey: 823.912

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Ages 9-12

Good read aloud book.

Movie Connections edit see section history

  • Finding Neverland (IMDb): 2004 film directed by Marc Forster, starring Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, and Julie Christie.
  • Peter Pan (IMDb): 2003 film directed by P.J. Hogan, starring Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Sumpter, and Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Hook (IMDb): 1991 film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, and Julia Roberts.
  • Peter Pan (IMDb): 1953 Walt Disney film

More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • The Complete Adventures of Peter Pan
  • Walt Disney's Peter Pan

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