James Matthew Barrie

Peter Pan Peter and Wendy Annotate James Matthew Barrie

Peter and Wendy, often known simply as Peter Pan, is a work by J. M. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. Although the character appeared previously in Barrie's book The Little White Bird, the play and its novelization contain the story of Peter Pan mythos that is best known. The two versions differ in some details of the story, but have much in common. Wendy succeeds in re-attaching his shadow to him, and Peter learns that she knows many bedtime stories. He invites her to Neverland to be a mother to his gang, the Lost Boys, children who were lost in Kensington Gardens. Wendy agrees, and her brothers John and Michael go along.