Peter Pan

‘All children,except onegrow up.’ Peter Pan originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M. Barrie’s sequence of storiesPeter Pan in Kensington Gardens. His later role as flying boy hero of Neverland was brought to the stage by Barrie’s play Peter Pan (1904)which was transformed into the novel Peter and Wendy in 1911. In a narrative filled with vivid charactersepic battlespiratesfairiesand fantastic imaginationPeter Pan’s adventures capture the spirit of childhood and of rebellion against the role of adulthood in conventional society. This edition includes the novel and the storiesand reproduces the original illustrations by Francis Donkin Bedford and Arthur Rackham. In his introductionJack Zipes sifts through the psychological interpretations that have engaged criticsexplores the cultural and literary contexts in which we can appreciate Barrie’s enduring creationand shows why Peter Pan is fundamentally a work that urges adults to reconnect with their own imagination.