Peter Pan is playwright and novelist J.M. Barrie's most famous work, published both as a play in 1904 and in 1911 as a novel. It tells the story of the magical Peter Pan, who flies into the Darling family's nursery in London one night and persuades the children to fly to Never Land with him, where they get caught up in a number of wild adventures. The play was an instant success upon its premiere and quickly found a following of devotees in both children and adults, who saw the story of the eternally young Peter Pan as a compelling allegory for the melancholy of growing up.
Barrie was inspired to write the story of Peter by the Davies children, whom Barrie adopted after the death of...
