The boy who never grows up — adventure and imagination in Neverland.
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Peter Pan is not a children's story about flying — it's an adult's meditation on what we sacrifice when we grow up, written by a man who never quite could.
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Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her…
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- Chapter I. Peter Breaks ThroughFree
- Chapter II. The ShadowFree
- Chapter III. Come Away, Come Away!Free
- Chapter IV. The FlightFree
- Chapter V. The Island Come TrueFree
- Chapter VI. The Little HouseFree
- Chapter VII. The Home Under the GroundFree
- Chapter VIII. The Mermaids’ LagoonFree
- Chapter IX. The Never BirdFree
- Chapter X. The Happy HomeFree
- Chapter XI. Wendy’s StoryFree
- Chapter XII. The Children Are Carried OffFree
- Chapter XIII. Do You Believe in Fairies?Free
- Chapter XIV. The Pirate ShipFree
- Chapter XV. “Hook or Me This Time”Free
- Chapter XVI. The Return HomeFree
- Chapter XVII. When Wendy Grew UpFree
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