Name: Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
SKU: 56497022
Price: 294.00 ZAR
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Author: Barrie, J. M. ; Bedford, F. D. ; Rackham, Arthur
ISBN: 9781420973198

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Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

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Physical Book

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Language

English

Pages

174

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x1 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781420973198

Synopsis "Peter and Wendy and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens"

J. M. Barrie's classic play about the boy who wouldn't grow up first debuted on stage in London in 1904. Based on a character Barrie introduced in his 1902 novel "The Little White Bird", Peter Pan and his Lost Boys became an instant success after they first appeared. Barrie continued to make changes to his now iconic tale and adapted the play into the novel "Peter and Wendy", published in 1911. This is the Peter Pan the world has become so familiar with and has inspired countless adaptations for both the stage and screen. It is the iconic story of how Peter meets Wendy, a normal girl who agrees to accompany Peter back to his home in Neverland so that she can become a mother to his gang, the Lost Boys. Along with her brothers, John and Michael, Wendy meets the fairy Tinkerbell, the rowdy Lost Boys who refuse to grow up, and the fearsome Captain Hook. Included here with Barrie's novel of perpetual childhood are the first chapters of Peter's story from "The Little White Bird", later published as the book "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens". This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

J. M. Barrie

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J.M. Barrie (Kirriemuir, Scotland, 1860 - London, 1937) was a Scottish writer and playwright best known as the creator of Peter Pan. Born into a family of modest craftsmen, he had a happy childhood until the death of a brother when he was just six years old deeply altered family life and disturbed his mother's mental health, turning her into an unbalanced, authoritarian, and inflexible person, whose influence and memory forever weighed on James. Barrie's main longing for the rest of his life was to regain the happiness of his early years and he always maintained a childlike nuance in his personality. In London, he gained fame with his novels and plays. It was also there that he met the children of the Llewelyn Davies family, who inspired him to write Peter Pan, the play about a boy who did not want to grow up and about Wendy, his adventure partner in Neverland. Years later he turned it into a novel: Peter and Wendy was a true phenomenon in the Edwardian era, the British Belle Époque that combined years of innocence, hedonism, and carefreeness before World War I.

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