Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By J. M. Barrie

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• Language: English
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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788777377

J. M. Barrie

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie (1860--1937) was a novelist and playwright born and educated in Scotland. After moving to London, he authored several successful novels and plays. While there, Barrie befriended the Llewelyn Davies family and its five boys, and it was this friendship that inspired him to write about a boy with magical abilities, first in his adult novel The Little White Bird and then later in Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 play. Now an iconic character of children's literature, Peter Pan first appeared in book form in the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, about the whimsical adventures of the eternal boy who could fly and his ordinary friend Wendy Darling.

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The Complete Works of

J. M. BARRIE

VOLUME 9 OF 54

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2013

Version 1

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‘Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens’

J. M. Barrie: Parts Edition (in 54 parts)

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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J. M. Barrie: Parts Edition

This eBook is Part 9 of the Delphi Classics edition of J. M. Barrie in 54 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of J. M. Barrie, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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J. M. BARRIE

IN 54 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Novels

1, Auld Licht Idylls

2, Better Dead

3, When a Man’s Single

4, A Window in Thrums

5, The Little Minister

6, Sentimental Tommy

7, Tommy and Grizel

8, The Little White Bird

9, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

10, Peter and Wendy

The Novellas

11, A Tillyloss Scandal

12, Farewell Miss Julie Logan

The Short Story Collections

13, A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches

14, Two of Them

15, Echoes of the War

The Plays

16, Ibsen’s Ghost

17, Walker, London

18, Jane Annie

19, The Professor’s Love Story

20, The Little Minister

21, The Wedding Guest

22, Quality Street

23, The Admirable Crichton

24, Little Mary

25, Peter Pan – the Original Play

26, Alice Sit-By-The-Fire

27, What Every Woman Knows

28, Old Friends

29, When Wendy Grew Up – an Afterthought

30, Pantaloon

31, The Twelve-Pound Look

32, Rosalind

33, The Will

34, Half an Hour

35, The New Word

36, A Kiss for Cinderella

37, Seven Women

38, Der Tag

39, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

40, Dear Brutus

41, A Well-Remembered Voice

42, Mary Rose

43, Shall We Join the Ladies?

44, Barbara’s Wedding

45, The Boy David

The Non-Fiction

46, An Edinburgh Eleven

47, My Lady Nicotine

48, The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island

49, Charles Frohman: A Tribute

50, Neither Dorking nor the Abbey

51, M’connachie and J. M. B.

52, Preface to the Young Visiters

The Memoirs

53, Margaret Ogilvy

54, The Greenwood Hat

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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Following the highly successful debut of the stage play about Peter Pan in 1904, Barrie’s publishers, Hodder and Stoughton, extracted chapters 13–18 of the novel The Little White Bird and republished them in 1906 under the title Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, with the addition of illustrations by Arthur Rackham. The text of this version is almost identical to those chapters, with minor differences appearing on only nine of the original pages.

The first edition

CONTENTS

The Grand Tour of the Gardens

Peter Pan

The Thrush’s Nest

The Little House

Lock-out Time

The original frontispiece

The Grand Tour of the Gardens

You must see for yourselves that it will be difficult to follow our adventures unless you are familiar with the Kensington Gardens, as they now became known to David. They are in London, where the King lives, and you go to them every day unless you are looking decidedly flushed, but no one has ever been in the whole of the Gardens, because it is so soon time to turn back. The reason it is soon time to turn back is that you sleep from twelve to one. If your mother was not so sure that you sleep from twelve to one, you could most likely see the whole of them.

The Gardens are bounded on one side by a never-ending line of omnibuses, over which Irene has such authority that if she holds up her finger to any one of them it stops immediately. She then crosses with you in safety to the other side. There are more gates to the Gardens than one gate, but that is the one you go in at, and before you go in you speak to the lady with the balloons, who sits just outside. This is as near to being inside as she may venture, because, if she were to let go her hold of the railings for one moment, the balloons would lift her up, and she would be flown away. She sits very squat, for the balloons are always tugging at her, and the strain has given her quite a red face. Once she