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Peter and Wendy: The Restored Text (Annotated)
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Peter and Wendy: The Restored Text (Annotated) Paperback - 2020

by James Matthew Barrie; Foreword by Peter Von Brown; Andrea Jones (Editor)


About this book

Peter and Wendy (1911) is the title of James M. Barrie's novelization of his most famous play, Peter Pan: or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904). Inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family, both the play and the novel tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous young boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers. The novel follows the play closely, though its final chapter is an addition to the original work.

Peter and Wendy was first published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and Charles Scribner's Sons in the United States. In 1929, Barrie gave the copyright to the works featuring Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), Britain's leading children's hospital.

From the publisher

Peter Pan is vanishing. Unauthorized changes have tinkered with J.M. Barrie's magic. How can we know that the book we call "Peter Pan" is presented the way Barrie first penned it? Since the mid-20th century, readers couldn't be certain? until this edition.

With the award-winning "Hook & Jill" Saga, the Reginetta Press drew grown-up readers back to the Neverland. Now it carries us to the Island again, this time on the wings of Barrie's own words....

"All children, except one, grow up." Peter Pan himself grew in his author's imagination, from the true boys Barrie knew, to the infant of "The Little White Bird," to the Wonderful Boy on stage, to his familiar form in "Peter and Wendy." But no evolution of Barrie's text is necessary for us to revel in his Neverland? in any era, and at any age.

With "Peter and Wendy: The Restored Text," the Reginetta Press preserves the integrity of Barrie's manuscript, before it is lost to time. All other versions stand "second-to-the-right" of J.M. Barrie's.

This Reginetta Press edition replicates the exact text of J.M. Barrie's 1911 novelization of the Peter Pan story, "Peter and Wendy," and reproduces the F.D. Bedford illustrations.

With supplemental material documenting the development of J.M. Barrie's concept of Peter Pan over the years:

--"The Evolution of Peter Pan," tracing the growth of the Peter Pan mythology;

--Editor's supplement: "A Gift of Ghosts," revealing background and insight into the origin of Peter Pan in J.M. Barrie's personal life.

--Text restored to original form, which editions since the mid-20th century may have changed or deleted.

--Includes all 14 illustrations created by F.D. Bedford, rarely seen and now restored from the first edition in 1911.

First Edition Identification

First UK editions of Peter and Wendy have no subsequent printings noted and contain 13 plates, including frontispiece and title page, illustrated by artist F. D. Bedford. First US editions can be identified by the Scribner colophon on the copyright page.

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  • Title Peter and Wendy: The Restored Text (Annotated)
  • Author James Matthew Barrie; Foreword by Peter Von Brown; Andrea Jones (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 218
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Reginetta Press LLC
  • Date 2020-06-30
  • ISBN 9780982371428 / 098237142X
  • Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
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