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Find out moreWritten by J.M. Barrie
Illustrated by Joel Stewart
Part of the Alma Junior Classics Series
In addition to the famous 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, this volume contains the celebrated stage version on which Peter and Wendy is based, as well as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. This edition is illustrated by Joel Stewart.
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The Complete Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
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The boy who wouldn't grow up, Peter Pan has the power of flight and lives on a magical island. But he is fascinated by Mary Darling's bedtime stories for her children and makes covert night-time visits to their Bloomsbury home. One evening he loses his shadow, and after Mary's daughter Wendy helps him reattach it, he invites her to fly away with him on an extraordinary adventure. In addition to the famous 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, which tells the familiar adventures of Peter Pan in Neverland and introduces the unforgettable characters of Tinkerbell and Captain Hook, this volume contains the celebrated stage version on which Peter and Wendy is based, as well as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, in which Peter Pan is a seven-day-old infant who consorts with birds and fairies and travels down the Serpentine in a thrush's nest.
Every Legend has a beginning....
ISBN: | 9781847495600 |
Publication date: | 15th October 2015 |
Author: | J.M. Barrie |
Illustrator: | Joel Stewart |
Publisher: | Alma Classics an imprint of Alma Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 368 pages |
Suitable for: | 7+ readers, 9+ readers |
Genres: | Classic Fiction |
Collections: | Free Books to Enjoy, |
Other Categories: | Free Books for 7+ readers, Free Books for 9+ readers |
J.M. Barrie was born on May 9, 1860, in Kirriemuir, Scotland. He was the ninth child and third son of David and Margaret ( Ogilvy ) Barrie. His father was a handloom weaver.Barrie attended Glasgow Academy, Forfar Academy and Dumfries Academy. In 1887he enrolled in Edinburgh University, where he graduated in four years with a master's degree. He worked as a journalist for the Nottingham Journal before moving to London in 1885 to freelance. When Barrie was six years old his older brother David died. Barrie set himself to console his mother, and later attributed this as his start down the road to ...
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