Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie, 1911
A boy who refuses to grow up flies three children to an island of pirates, fairies and mermaids—and shows how much childhood costs.
J. M. Barrie
1860–1937
Barrie gave the copyright of Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1929; the hospital has received royalties from the play ever since.
Feels like wonder, nostalgia and unease.
No one gets over the first time they are treated unfairly.
Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter. He often met it, but he always forgot it. I suppose that was the real difference between him and all the rest. Books by J. M. Barrie
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