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    Peter Pan
    Peter Pan
    Peter Pan
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    Peter Pan

    By J. M. Barrie and Mint Editions

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    The eternally youthful Peter Pan encounters Wendy and her brothers, who decide to join him in Neverland and never grow old. Their plans do not reckon with either the sinister Captain Hook or the unsuspected dark side of perpetual childhood.

    Peter Pan’s story began as a play in 1904 and met with immediate success. The author converted it into a novel in 1911 to similar acclaim. His story has appeared on stage, television, live action film and animated cartoon. Peter’s adventures with Wendy take place in a glorious world of imagination, where fairies and Wild Boys are boon companions in swashbuckling conflict with wild beasts and pirates. But in Peter and Wendy we can see another conflict, that between the love of family and responsibility of the adult world and the carefree, impulsive freedom of childhood. This is truly a tale to be appreciated equally, yet differently, by both children and grown-ups. This dual appeal, and the lasting, fundamental charisma of Peter himself, have made Peter Pan both enjoyable and relevant for each new generation.

    With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Peter Pan is both modern and readable.

    Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

    With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMint Editions
    Release dateJul 28, 2020
    ISBN9781513265162
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    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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    • 3/5
      Summary: Short punchy adventure story for kids and adults who want to remember what it was like to be a kid.

      Things I liked:

      * Perspective: I really loved the way he was able to really nail the way some kids look at the world (or at least it reminded me of how I used to see the world when I was a kid).

      * The narrators voice. The charming English professor style reminded me of books like Narnia and The Once and Future King.

      * The dark undertones: I definitely felt the author trying to share a few things outside of a kids adventure story, it made me glad to be reading a book versus watching a movie.


      Things I didn't like:

      * The perspective changed quite a bit quite quickly (made it a little hard to follow sometimes).

      * Some of the characters felt a little boxed up. You got given a character portrait versus the opportunity to find out about the character from their words and actions (made it a little bit more like a comic book or a fairy tale then a novel.

      Highlight: The end with Wendy and her daughter. The cumulation of the novel made me sad and happy. I think sticking to the character of Pan versus taking the easy option of having everyone live happily ever after was bold and effective choice. I loved the bitter-sweet feeling it left me with. . I remember about two pages into the book I had a great tingly feeling that made me already glad I was reading a book versus watching a disney movie.
    • 4/5
      I'd never read this book before and I don't think I've ever seen the panto or the whole of any of the films either, but of course I vaguely knew the plot from seeing various parts of the cartoon version on those Disney Time TV programs that used to be shown every bank holiday. It is a darker story than I was expecting; the fairies and mermaids are otherworldly and treacherous and Peter's forgetfulness makes him an unreliable and at times unnerving companion. He isn't really human at all any more - he spent too long with the fairies and that is never a good thing. Because Peter Pan refuses to grow up, he will remain 'gay and innocent and heartless' forever.
    • 2/5
      Probably should have read this as a child to appreciate it. Some of the narrator's comments to the reader are hilarious but the story is just odd and rather sad.
    • 4/5
      I've always wanted to read the real Peter Pan and I finally have. To me, it is quite different than the disney movie. It is kind of a dark story. Definitely not what I was expecting. But, I did enjoy it very much.
    • 4/5
      This is a necessary read if you care about fantasy, children's, British or coming of age literature. What happens when our " gay, innocent and heartless" children leave the nest? What happens if they don't? What does it take to survive childhood? This is vastly different than the Disney movie. Peter is villainous himself and somewhat demented. And so is Tinkerbell more than just stubborn. This is worth a read. On a side note, I think Johnny Depp may have used it as inspiration for Captain Jack Sparrow, as Barrie writes that "pirates have a touch of the feminism in them".
    • 4/5
      As an adult going back through books I read as a child, this books has grown so much more heavy. I know from people that have been in my life they are not the biggest fan.
      I have remained deeply attached to this book but maybe not the light hearted lines but the more so the in-between the lines part.

      As a mother myself with a little one of my own who regularly searches for fairies, I believe the book has just become that much more sentimental.
    • 4/5
      Beautifully written. This book was exactly how I imagined it would be. A boy who refuses to grow up technically kidnaps a bunch of children and takes them to a land where they too can never grow up. Also there are pirates, mermaids and Native Americans, because if you can't find Native Americans in Neverland then where can you find them?
    • 3/5
      teaches about going on an adventure. Students would love this book because it keeps going and going, never a dull moment.
    • 3/5
      Substance: Peter Pan is not so charming in this book, with a disturbing psychological neurosis driving his refusal to grow up. Barrie's cynical interpolations in the novel version of his play give it a much darker and meaner aspect. Not a book I would give to children. A subversive fairy tale in the sense used by Jack Zipes about the 17th-18thc. French literary tales.Style: Deceptively borrows the style of Victorian children's literature, with snide asides to keep adults sniggering. See Hilaire Beloc's "Matilda Who Told LIes and Was Burned to Death" and P.L. Travers' "Mary Poppins" series.
    • 4/5
      This was a lot of fun to read. Much better and very different than the Disney version or any of the other Hollywood attempts, predictably.
    • 4/5
      I guess I am glad I read it.
    • 4/5
      An odd little book. Short and sweet, but with some quite dark images. The character of Peter is very well imagined.
    • 1/5
      I could not finish this book. It didn't make any sense. It might have worked if Peter Pan's maturity level was just a little higher, but apparently he was like a five-year-old at best. Why the other kids would let a baby boss them around, I could not figure out. Even the Disney version portrayed him as at least more of a pre-teen. In the book, he is extremely capricious and doesn't have a sustained interest in anything or anybody, just a child going from one game to the next on a whim.
    • 1/5
      23 (re-read) Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, by J. M. Barrie. This was on Starrett's 1955 list of "books which will live", and I forgot to check my list of books read and so read it. It seemed so familiar, but I did not think I had actually read it. But I did--tho probably not in play form, as this was. It is so saccharine, I really cannot say as an adult it is worth reading. (read Aug. 8, 1998)
    • 4/5
      Don't be fooled: this is the novel reprinted under the title of the play. If you're looking for the play try OUP's Peter Pan and Other Plays.I am given to understand that Barrie tinkered with the story over a thirty year period, so that although the play premièred before the novel, the text as published in 1928 represents Barrie's final conception. The novel is a snapshot of an earlier vision. There are distinct differences. In the play Peter is clearly dead. There were a couple of suggestions here that Barrie had that in mind, but Neverland appears to be more a place of the imagination. The play is crystallised and the novel more fluid. Which you prefer is very subjective. I prefer the play, but don't want to underrate the novel which is written with great charm and real moments of magic.
    • 5/5
      Much deeper than the movies with serious meanings behind the silliness and fun. A classic and a must read.
    • 4/5
      Having been exposed to the adulterated Disney version at a young age, I found the original a wonderful surprise. The story is a meditation on the inevitability of loss and the unearthly, unsustainable price of innocence. Like all great children’s literature, this is hardly written for children at all. It is, in fact, a stern corrective for those adults who tend to wax nostalgic about childhood.
    • 4/5
      Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie is the classical tale of Peter Pan that boy who could not grow up and his adventures in Neverland with Wendy, lost boys, Tinkerbell and Captain Hook. The book have beautiful illustration throughout and is written like a beginners chapter book The first chapters of Peter Pan begins with Peter Pan visiting Wendy, John and Michael Darling, later with Tinkerbell who help the children fly with the help of fairy dust to Neverland . In Neverland the children met the Lost Boys, the Natives and Captain Hook and set sail on a fun adventure. The theme of this book is childhood and imagination which is shown through the character Peter Pan.
    • 4/5
      I love this edition of the story. The illustrations added so much to it and kept me so intrigued with what was happening. Minalima did a GREAT job and I can't wait to see what book they come out with next. That said, this is a children's classic and if you're looking for the Disney version of the story this is not it, though they didn't stray too, too far from the original. I would recommend this story to anyone. 4.5 out of 5 stars.
    • 2/5
      i thought i would enjoy it more...

      Tink was seriously annoying, the boys kind of annoyed me as well - but Peter, dear Peter annoyed me most of all - he was so ignorant!
    • 4/5
      I read this *after* reading about how sad J.M. Barrie was, and his mother, after losing his teenage brother. It puts a weird spin on the entire story, and it already seems quite dated ("redskins" "Indians") and surreal even without the fantastic elements. Why was the dog the children's nanny?It's a fun story, but there were just sad and odd undertones throughout, it was hard to forget the psychology and sadness around it.
    • 4/5
      I have always loved the story of Peter Pan, whether it was represented in book, play, movie. It took me an exceedingly long time before I read this book. I have a lot of classics to get through. I loved recognizing a line from a play or movie that I had heard before. The magic of this is astonishing and I look forward to sharing it with my children... although I will try to stress that they should not become little Peter's. :)
    • 5/5
      I had never read Peter Pan as a child, and I'm so glad I did now. I thoroughly enjoyed the charming prose, and also how it really speaks to a child's imagination. I wish I had read this aloud to my children when they were young, because they would have eaten up the adventures of Peter and the boys fighting Hook and the pirates. Barrie gets how a child thinks -- or doesn't think -- about implications of the wild times they love to play at. I'm sure this is a fantastic read aloud.
    • 4/5
      I've always loved the story of Peter Pan and finally got around to reading the book. I think that it brought out the character of Peter more than I was used to and I really enjoyed that.
    • 4/5
      I think Peter Pan is one of those books where anyone can relate to. I was raised on the Disney version of Peter Pan and was surprised by some of the differences that existed between the book and the movie. The book is more darker, having not a happy Peter but rather a almost twisted boy. Good book that has action in every single chapter.
    • 5/5
      Barrie's novel is worth a look if the Peter Pan you know is the highly adulterated flying boy of Disney fame. It's also worth a look if you've always considered Peter Pan to be a story aimed only at children. While the whimsy of Neverland and flying children does lend itself well to a "Children's Lit" tag, the comments of the story's narrator lends a subtext to the novel which should not be missed, and the roles being played by Pan, Wendy, and Hook are also worth looking at if you'd like to glean a deeper meaning from a "kiddie novel." What Barrie has done is create two beautifully separate realms, or snapshots, of childhood and adulthood, and he allows us to venture into and through them with Wendy and the Lost Boys. Definitely worth a read, for young and old. I highly recommend this book.
    • 3/5
      The story of the boy who never grows up. Having listened to Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson's wonderful prequels to Peter Pan (Peter and the Star Catchers and Peter and the Shadow Theives), I wanted to listen to the original - I never had. Well, I really didn't like it. The reader was good, but Peter is a little brat. I think Disney improved on Peter.
    • 2/5
      Must read for boys and girls..
    • 3/5
      Good as expected based on seeing the Disney classic and "Hook". The book has some much deeper plots and violence than expected. Some is good and some is bad.
    • 3/5
      This is ok, but really, see the play, which is both grander and sadder, or at least read the play.

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