# Peter and Wendy

> J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan novel pairs wonder, danger, and melancholy as Wendy follows Peter to Neverland.

Price: 7.50 USD · in stock

## About
Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie’s full novel of Neverland: the book that gathers Peter Pan, Wendy Darling, Captain Hook, the Lost Boys, and Tinker Bell into a story more emotionally layered than its cultural afterlife sometimes suggests. It is at once a children’s adventure, a fantasy of escape, and a meditation on childhood’s glamour and instability.Why read Peter and Wendy today?Barrie moves lightly, but never emptily. The book gives readers flying lessons, pirate battles, mermaids, and moonlit danger, yet beneath the enchantment it keeps asking what it means to remain young, to care for others, and to leave home without quite understanding the cost. That combination of swiftness and sadness is what makes the novel endure.What kind of classic is it?This is a foundational fantasy classic and one of the essential books behind modern children’s literature. Readers coming from stage or film versions will find a richer, stranger, and more literary text here: playful in voice, vivid in image, and unexpectedly attentive to time, memory, and the changing bond between children and adults.Further contextWikipedia: Peter and Wendy.

## Specifications
- author: J. M. Barrie
- publisher: DotBooks
- imprint: DotBooks
- synopsis: Wendy Darling follows Peter Pan to Neverland, where pirates, mermaids, the Lost Boys, and Captain Hook turn childhood fantasy into perilous adventure.
- language: en
- binding: Perfect Bound
- pages: 206
- format: paperback
- published_year: 1911
- publication_date: 1911-01-01
- openlibrary: OL29682893W