Peter Pan (Summarized Edition)

Peter Pan, first staged in 1904 and novelized in 1911 as Peter and Wendy, follows the Darling children into Neverland, where Peter, Tinker Bell, and Captain Hook enact adventures shot through with peril and sweetness. Barrie's prose weds whimsy to quiet dread; an ironic, intrusive narrator measures the price of refusing to grow up. The episodic, theatrical design betrays its stage origins, while i...