HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Second to the right … and then straight on till morning!’Desperate to hear bedtime stories, Peter Pan waits outside the nursery window of Wendy, John and Michael Darling. When Peter asks Wendy to fly with him to Neverland, the Darling children are whisked away to a world of adventure – of daring fairies, wondrous mermaids and The Lost Boys.But there is danger in Neverland too: the villainous Captain Hook is...
Peter Pan (also known as "Peter Pan and Wendy" or "Peter and Wendy") was written by J.M. Barrie (1860 – 1937) and was first published as a novel in 1911. The story follows a young boy who can fly and never grows old. He lives on an island called Neverland with a group of friends called "The Lost Boys" and fights with the fearsome pirate – Captain Hook. Other friends include fairies, mermaids and of course, children outside of...
This selection of J M Barrie's work covers three different genres and all the most telling themes found in his writing: Scotland, childhood, fantasy and sentimentality, sexual anxiety, theatrical invention, social comedy and proto-feminism. The disturbing prose fable of The Little White Bird contains the first and most original exploration of the Peter Pan theme, properly set in the wider context of a middle-aged man's engagement with creation, fantasy and loneliness-a theme which...
