The Complete Peter Pan

Peter Pan is the boy who refuses to grow up. He can fly and lives on a magical island, but he keeps slipping into a house in Bloomsbury at night, drawn by the bedtime stories Mary Darling tells her children.

One evening he loses his shadow there. Mary's daughter Wendy helps him sew it back on, and Peter responds by inviting her to fly away with him on an extraordinary adventure.

This volume gathers three versions of the Peter Pan material. The first is the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy, which follows Peter's adventures in Neverland and brought Tinkerbell and Captain Hook into wide circulation.

The second is the stage play on which that novel is based. The third is Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, where Peter is a seven-day-old infant who keeps company with birds and fairies and rides down the Serpentine in a thrush's nest.

Readers get the story in play form, in novel form and in an earlier, stranger telling of Peter's infancy, all in one book.