Peter Pan
James Matthew Barrie
(Author)
Description
Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH 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.
Product Details
Price
$16.90
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publish Date
July 30, 2014
Pages
148
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.32 inches | 0.46 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781500673338
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About the Author
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Sir J. M. Barrie, Bt Barrie in 1890 Born (1860-05-09)9 May 1860 Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland Died 19 June 1937(1937-06-19) (aged 77) London, England Resting place Kirriemuir Cemetery, Angus, Scotland Occupation Novelist, playwright Nationality Scottish Citizenship United Kingdom Education Glasgow Academy Forfar Academy Dumfries Academy Edinburgh University Period Victorian, Edwardian Genres Children's literature, drama, fantasy Literary movement Kailyard school Notable work(s) The Little White Bird Peter Pan The Admirable Crichton Spouse(s) Mary Ansell (m. 1894-1909) Children Guardian of the Llewelyn Davies boys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Signature -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- jmbarrie.co.uk Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously.[1] Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made a baronet by George V in 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in 1922. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them.
