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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy Free FREE PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS / PETER AND WENDY PDF Sir J. M. Barrie,Peter Hollindale | 288 pages | 15 Jan 2009 | Oxford University Press | 9780199537846 | English | Oxford, United Kingdom Peter and Wendy - Wikipedia Barriein the form of a play and a novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pana mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaidsfairiesNative Americansand pirates. The play and novel were inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. Barrie continued to revise the play for years after its debut until publication of the play script in A Broadway production was mounted in starring Maude Adams. The play has since been adapted as a pantomimestage musical, a television special, and several films, including a silent filmthe Disney animated filmand a live action production. The play is now rarely performed in its original form on stage in the United Kingdom, whereas pantomime adaptations are frequently staged around Christmas. In the U. The original book contains a frontispiece and 11 half-tone plates by artist F. Bedford Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy illustrations are still under copyright in the EU. The novel was first abridged by May Byron inwith Barrie's permission, and published under the title Peter Pan and Wendythe first time this form was used. This version was later illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell in Barrie created Peter Pan in stories he told to the sons of his friend Sylvia Llewelyn Davieswith whom he had forged a special relationship. Llewelyn Davies's death from cancer came within a few years after the death of her husband; Barrie was a co-guardian of the boys, and unofficially adopted them. The character's name comes from two sources: Peter Llewelyn Daviesone of the boys, and Panthe mischievous Greek god of the woodlands. According to Birkin, the death was "a catastrophe beyond belief, and one from which she never fully recovered. If Margaret Ogilvy [Barrie's mother as the heroine of his novel of that title] drew a measure of comfort from the notion that David, in dying a boy, would remain a boy for ever, Barrie drew inspiration. Barrie then adapted the play into the novel Peter and Wendyoften now published simply as Peter Pan. The original draft of the play was entitled simply Anon: A Play. Although the character appeared previously in Barrie's book The Little White Birdthe play and its novelisation 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. In both versions Peter makes night-time calls on the Darlings' house in Bloomsbury[4] listening in on Mrs. Mary Darling 's bedtime stories by the open window. One night Peter is spotted and, while trying to escape, he loses Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy shadow. On returning to claim it, Peter wakes Mary's daughter, Wendy Darling. Wendy succeeds in re-attaching his shadow to him, and Peter learns that she knows Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy bedtime stories. He invites her to Neverland to be a mother to his gang, the Lost Boyschildren who were lost in Kensington Gardens. Wendy agrees, and her brothers John and Michael go along. Their magical flight to Neverland is followed by many adventures. The children are blown out of the air by a cannon and Wendy is nearly killed by the Lost Boy Tootles. Peter and the Lost Boys build a little house for Wendy to live in while she recuperates a type of structure that to this day is called a Wendy house. Soon John and Michael adopt the ways of the Lost Boys. Peter welcomes Wendy to his underground home, and she immediately assumes the role of mother figure. Peter takes the Darlings on several adventures, the first truly dangerous one occurring at Mermaids' Lagoon. He is named after the hook that replaced his right hand that Peter cut Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy in a fight. From thereon, Hook has been hunted by the crocodile which ate his hand after it fell into the water and now wants to eat the rest of him. The crocodile also swallowed a ticking clock, so Hook is wary of all ticking sounds. Peter is wounded when Hook claws him. He believes he will die, stranded on a rock when the tide is rising, but he views death as "an awfully big adventure". Luckily, the Neverbird allows him to use her nest as a boat, and Peter sails home. In gratitude for his saving Tiger Lily, her tribe guard his home from the next imminent pirate attack. Meanwhile, Wendy begins to fall in love with Peter and asks him what kind of feelings he has for her. Peter says that he is like her faithful son. One day while telling stories to the Lost Boys and her brothers, John and Michael, Wendy recalls Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy parents and then decides to take them back and return to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy. Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to Peter, Wendy and the boys are captured by Captain Hook, who also tries to poison Peter's medicine while the boy is asleep. When Peter awakes, he learns from the fairy Tinker Bell that Wendy has been kidnapped — in an effort to please Wendy, he goes to drink his medicine. Tink does not have time to warn him of the poison, and instead drinks it herself, causing her near death. Tink tells him she could be saved if children believed in fairies. In one of the play's most famous moments, Peter turns to the audience watching the play and begs those who believe in fairies to clap their hands. Peter heads to the ship. On the way, he encounters the ticking crocodile; Peter decides to copy the tick, so any animals will recognise it and leave him unharmed. He does not realise that he is still ticking as he boards the ship, where Hook cowers, mistaking him for the crocodile. While the pirates are searching for the croc, Peter sneaks into the cabin to steal the keys and frees the Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy Boys. When the pirates investigate a noise in the cabin, Peter defeats them. When he finally reveals himself, he and Hook begin the climactic battle, which Peter easily wins. He kicks Hook into the jaws of the waiting crocodile, and Hook dies with the satisfaction that Peter had literally kicked him off the ship, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy Hook considers "bad form". Then Peter takes control of the ship, and sails the seas back to London. In the end, Wendy decides that her place is at home, much to the joy of her heartsick mother. Wendy then brings all the boys but Peter back to London. Before Wendy and her brothers arrive at their house, Peter flies ahead, to try and bar the window so Wendy will think her mother has forgotten her. But when he learns of Mrs. Darling's distress, he bitterly leaves the window open and flies away. Peter returns briefly, and he meets Mrs. Darling, who Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy agreed to adopt the Lost Boys. She offers to adopt Peter as well, but Peter refuses, afraid they will "catch him and make him a man. Peter promises to return for Wendy every spring. The final scene of the play takes place a year later when we see Wendy preparing to go back home after the spring-cleaning has taken place. It is stated that Tinker Bell has died during this year since fairies are naturally short-lived creatures. However, Peter has already forgotten about Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys and even Hook when Wendy returns, and he does not understand Wendy's wistful wish that she could take him back with her. According to the narrator of the play "It has something to do with the riddle of his being. If he could get the hang of the thing his cry might become "To live would be an awfully big adventure! An Afterthoughtlater included in the final chapter of Peter and Wendyand later still published as a separate work in In this scene, Peter returns for Wendy years later, but she is now grown up with a daughter of her own named Jane. It is also revealed Wendy married one of the Lost Boys, although this is not mentioned in the novel, and it is never revealed which one she did marry in the original draft of the play, it is mentioned that she married Tootles, although Barrie omitted this before publication. When Peter learns that Wendy has "betrayed" him by growing up, he is heartbroken until Jane agrees to come to Neverland as Peter's new mother. In the novel's last few sentences, Barrie mentions that Jane has grown up as well and that Peter now takes her daughter Margaret to Neverland. Barrie says this cycle will go on forever as long as children are "gay and innocent and heartless". An Afterthought is only occasionally used in productions of the play, but was included in the musical production starring Mary Martinand provided the premise for Disney 's sequel to their animated adaptation of the story, Return to Never Land. Peter Pan is one of the protagonists of the play and the novel. He is described in the novel as a young boy who still has all his first teeth ; he wears clothes made of leaves autumn leaves in the play, skeleton leaves in the novel and plays the pipes.
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