Peter Pan

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• Book Review: The Annotated Peter Pan: The Centennial Edition by J. M. Barrie Share

  If you want to know what’s in and behind the books we all really love — The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, the stories of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm — you can’t beat this series of ... (read full critics)

  blogcritics published on Fri, 2 Dec 2011

• Peter Pan and his all-star cricket XI

  Pitching in: J. M. Barrie (standing, second left) and his 1905 team. The line-up over the years included Jerome K. Jerome, A. A. Milne, Arthur Conan Doyle and P. G. Wodehouse I suspect I may be to blame for this. A few years ago I wrote an allegedly ... (read full critics)

  dailymail published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010

8 Reviews

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  Is there a better children book than this one? I doubt it.
  There are no words to say how much I love this book.
  It's delicate and cruel at the same time, and even if you're a grown-up, once you've read it you can't help but believe that Peter Pan does exist, and Never-neverland as well...< ... (continue)

  Is there a better children book than this one? I doubt it.
  There are no words to say how much I love this book.
  It's delicate and cruel at the same time, and even if you're a grown-up, once you've read it you can't help but believe that Peter Pan does exist, and Never-neverland as well...
  Oh, how much I wanted to be Wendy when I was a little girl!

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  Miss Piggott said on Aug 12, 2007 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

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  "Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man."

  "I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things," he told her passionately. "I don't want to be a man. O Wendy's mother, if I was to wake up and feel there was a beard!"

  5/5

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  Giulia said on Oct 20, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  "Pan, who and what are thou?"
  "I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

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  rfranz said on Jul 9, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Peter Pan is one of those characters that simply gets stuck in your mind and heart, no matter how old you are. The novel is just so nice and so tender, but ironical at the same time, and I loved the way it was written. Of course it’s a children story, so I think I was a bit too old (unluckily) to fu ... (continue)

  Peter Pan is one of those characters that simply gets stuck in your mind and heart, no matter how old you are. The novel is just so nice and so tender, but ironical at the same time, and I loved the way it was written. Of course it’s a children story, so I think I was a bit too old (unluckily) to fully appreciate this book- I found it a tiny bit boring sometimes. I’m sure that if I had read it some years ago, I would have really liked it but at the same time I would not have caught the deeper meaning.

  Peter Pan from the book is a bit different from the boy we imagine (and we see in films and cartoons): he’s surely fascinating, but he’s also careless and reckless and sometimes quite annoying. Wendy is just lovely, and her feeling to be a mother deeply contrasts with her need to be a daughter and feel loved and taken care of by somebody.

  We are all Peter Pans and Wendies- we are tender, needy, scared. And I think that’s the reason why this novel has always been so successful: it is our unconscious reflection.

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  MoonyBen said on May 29, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Second book read on my iPod Touch! The way it is written is just lovely… Totally imaginative and so truthful to how a child sees the world. Sometimes, though, I found the thinking behind it a bit sexist. The only girl in the story is there to be the mother and has to do all the cooking and all the s ... (continue)

  Second book read on my iPod Touch! The way it is written is just lovely… Totally imaginative and so truthful to how a child sees the world. Sometimes, though, I found the thinking behind it a bit sexist. The only girl in the story is there to be the mother and has to do all the cooking and all the sewing etc. And the boys just go out and have fun and adventures… I also had a lot of troubles trying to understand the language in some parts, just like I did with Pride & Prejudice… I guess I'm not so used to read texts of the 19th century (or early 20th)… And I thought the end was beautifully sad.

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  Patricia said on Jun 10, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Peter Pan

  I'm after all things Fairy and celtic culture and its creatures. If someone has a book to recommend, please feel free!

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  BridgetJones09 said on May 28, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• Others 95 Pages
• Edition: Acting ed
• ISBN-10: 0573613915
• ISBN-13: 9780573613913
• Publisher: S. French
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1928
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding and Unbound
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