In Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie's popular fantasy novel, an ageless boy named Peter Pan takes Wendy and her siblings to a place called Neverland. There, Peter is plagued by the pirate Hook, who is himself plagued by the crocodile who bit off Hook's hand. In the end, Wendy, Peter, and the Lost Boys escape Hook's clutches, and all but Peter return to Wendy's home to live in the real world.

Extract: I. David and I Set Forth Upon a Journey Sometimes the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: "I shall be so pleased if you will come and see me," and I always reply in some such words as these: "Dear madam, I decline." And if David asks why I decline, I explain that it is because I have no desire to meet the woman. "Come this time, father," he urged lately, "for it is her birthday, and she is twenty-six," which is so great an age to David, that I think he fears she cannot last much longer. "Twenty-six, is she, David?" I replied. "Tell her I said she...

Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mystical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland. In addition to two distinct works by Barrie, the character has been featured in a variety of media and merchandise, both adapting and expanding on Barrie's works. These include a...

A free spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mystical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland.

Echoes of the war is a wonderfully moving simple book of four stories involving ordinary families during The Great War. Each of the stories takes place over a single scene. The first one was about an elderly woman with no family who spontaneously "adopts" a man who is about to go to war. The second is about the relationship between a father and his son who is inlisting as an officer. The third story follows an elderly man with dementia as he's trying to make sense of the changes that are happening around him. The last is about a father and son and trying to move on after the son's death.

Barrie took the title for "The Admirable Crichton" from the sobriquet of a fellow Scot, the polymath James Crichton, a 16th-century genius and athlete. The epigram-loving Ernest is probably a caricature of the title character in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The plot may derive from Robinson's Eiland, an 1896 German play by Ludwig Fulda. In this, "a satire upon modern super-cultur in its relation to primal nature," a group of Berlin officials (including a capitalist, a professor and a journalist) are shipwrecked on an island, where a secretary, Arnold, becomes the natural...

Tommy and Grizel (1900) is the sequel to Sentimental Tommy. It is an eloquently written romance story in a rural Scotland, and all the elements of an remarkable love story are present, unfaithful married women, mental illness, a trek to find a lost love, childhood sweethearts... This novel is considered one of Barrie's most revealing and outstanding prose works.

Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and Peter and Wendy are the stage play and novel (respectively) which tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. The story was written by Scottish playwright and novelist J. M. Barrie, inspired by his friendship with the Llewelyn-Davies family.