The Annotated Peter Pan

James Matthew Barrie, geb. 1860 in Kirriemuir/Schottland schrieb Erzählungen über seine schottischen Heimat und Theaterstücke. Barrie besuchte die Dumfries Academy und machte 1882 seinen Abschluss als Master of Arts an der Universität Edinburgh. Anschließend arbeitete er als Journalist für das Nottingham Journal und ab 1885 als freier Schriftsteller in London. Seine Ehe mit der Schauspielerin Mary Ansell endete kinderlos in einer Scheidung. 1913 wurde Barrie der Titel Baronet verliehen. Er starb 1937 in London.

One hundred years after J. M. Barrie published the novel Peter and Wendy, Maria Tatar revisits a story that, like Alice in Wonderland, bridges the generations, animating both adults and children with its kinetic energy. The adventures of the Darling children with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell in Neverland are the seminal tale of escape and fantasy. Inspired by Barrie's real-life adventures with the five Llewelyn Davies boys he adopted, the story of Peter Pan has a deep and controversial history of its own that comes alive in Tatar's new edition. This brilliantly designed volume-with period photographs, full-color images by iconic illustrators, commentary on stage and screen versions, and an array of supplementary material, including Barrie's screenplay for a silent film-will draw readers into worlds of incandescent beauty, flooding them with the radiance of childhood wonder and the poignancy of what we lose when we grow up.