'Peter Pan' began life as a stage play, first performed in 1904, at a time when children's literature was still in its infancy. It was another seven years before J. M. Barrie's masterpiece could be read in book form, and its publication caused a sensation. The novel is set in the Darling household, in stuffy Edwardian England, at a time when conformity was all and "children were to be seen and not heard." Wendy Darling holds her two younger brothers spellbound with bedtime stories of adventure and swordplay. Her tales seems to attract a strange, flying boy, who swoops into the bedroom at...
'Peter Pan' began life as a stage play, first performed in 1904, at a time when children's literature was still in its infancy. It was another seve...
