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Peter Pan - (Signet Classics) by James Matthew Barrie (Paperback)

Peter Pan - (Signet Classics) by  James Matthew Barrie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Beloved by generations, this world-famous story of the boy who could not grow up is now adapted as a major motion picture from Universal Pictures, scheduled for nationwide release on Christmas Day, 2003. Reissue.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Generations of readers have traveled to Neverland and all the secret places of a child's heart. A story rich in adventure, humor, and sadness, J.M. Barrie's masterpiece remains a stirring call to flights of imagination.</b> <p/>With a magic and emotional appeal unmatched by any other story, Barrie's <i>Peter Pan</i> speaks directly to childhood's dreams and desires with an imaginative genius that evokes both laughter and tears. Peter, the boy would wouldn't grow up; Nana, the Darling children's nurse and pet Newfoundland; deliciously dreadful Captain Hook, who is stalked by a crocodile with a clock in his stomach; and Tinker Bell, "quite a common fairy," who swears like a sailor and is murderously jealous--these characters of startling originality are rich, funny, mischievously insightful, and a joy to read about again and again. The result is a masterpiece of literature that has been working its timeless wonderment on us since it first appeared. <p/> <b>With an Afterword by Alison Lurie</b><br><b> Illustrated by Sergio Martinez</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Barrie wrote his fantasy of childhood, added another figure to our enduring literature, and thereby undoubtedly made one of the boldest bids for immortality of any writer. . . . It is a masterpiece."<br>-J. B. PRIESTLEY<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>J. M. Barrie</b> (1860-1937) was a bestselling writer well before he created <i>Peter Pan</i>. His famous children's plays grew from stories he had made up for the young sons of his friends Arthur and Sylvia Davies. First performed in 1904, <i>Peter Pan </i>was such a success it became an annual Christmas event. In 1911, Barrie novelized the play. Upon his death, Barrie left the copyright for <i>Peter Pan </i>to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London. <p/> <b>Alison Lurie </b>is the<b> </b>bestselling author of such novels as <i>The War Between the Tates </i>and the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>Foreign Affairs. </i>She has also written extensively about children's literature, including <i>Don't Tell the Grownups, Boys and Girls Forever, </i> and, as co-editor, the <i>Garland Library of Children's Classics</i>. She is F. J. Whiton Professor of American Literature Emeritas at Cornell University.<br> <b> </b>

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