Peter Pan, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Peter Pan and Wendy

by J.M. Barrie

«Peter Pan» è un breve romanzo sconcertante. Per i più piccoli è un racconto di fantasia, ma il bambino che non vuole crescere parla ai lettori di tutte le età con un potente, inquietante messaggio universale. Le sue avventure con Wendy e i ragazzi sperduti dell'Isola-chenon- c'è tra sirene, indiani, fate e pirati danno forma a quei sentimenti radicati nell'inconscio di tutti, che ci legano agli affetti, all'ignoto e alla libertà in una tensione continua, irrisolta come l'infanzia di Peter. L'opera di Barrie, apparsa per la prima volta in forma teatrale nel 1904, è spiritosa, ricca di suspense, intrisa di irresistibile magia: un classico della letteratura fantastica.

294 pages, Hardcover

Published October 16, 2019

About the author

James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays.

The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. He took up journalism for a newspaper in Nottingham and contributed to various London journals before moving there in 1885. His early Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889) contain fictional sketches of Scottish life representative of the Kailyard school. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. During the next decade, Barrie continued to write novels, but gradually, his interest turned towards the theatre.

In London, he met Llewelyn Davies, who inspired him about magical adventures of a baby boy in gardens of Kensington, included in The Little White Bird, then to a "fairy play" about this ageless adventures of an ordinary girl, named Wendy, in the setting of Neverland. People credited this best-known play with popularizing Wendy, the previously very unpopular name, and quickly overshadowed his previous, and he continued successfully.

Following the deaths of their parents, Barrie unofficially adopted the boys. He gave the rights to great Ormond street hospital, which continues to benefit.

Reviews

[Yuki Hitachiin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Meraviglioso, avevo timore che fosse scritto male, invece sono sorpresa.