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Peter Pan de J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan

Autor J. M. Barrie
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Evoluția literaturii pentru copii de la simple povești moralizatoare la explorări psihologice complexe găsește un punct de referință în opera lui J. M. Barrie. Remarcăm că această ediție din seria Collins Classics nu este doar o simplă republicare a poveștii băiatului care refuză să crească, ci o compilație critică ce urmărește metamorfoza personajului pe parcursul a peste două decenii. Subliniem importanța structurii volumului, care include nu doar textul canonic Peter and Wendy, ci și formele sale incipiente: piesa de teatru din 1904 și nuvela Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Această abordare permite cititorului să observe cum „sângerarea” dintre realitate și fantezie — o temă recurentă în opera lui Barrie — s-a rafinat în timp. Față de edițiile standard, precum The Adventures of Peter Pan, care se concentrează strict pe narațiunea de aventură, volumul de față completează perspectiva adăugând un aparat critic valoros: recenzii contemporane din publicații precum The New York Times și fragmente de manuscris care dezvăluie procesul de scriere. Merită menționat că progresia conținutului, de la cronologia vieții autorului până la anexele cu materiale de arhivă, transformă lectura dintr-o experiență nostalgică într-un studiu literar riguros. Această ediție reușește să ancoreze magia din Neverland în contextul social și personal al lui Barrie, oferind o viziune completă asupra unui mit modern care, spre deosebire de protagonistul său, continuă să se maturizeze în relevanță.

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ISBN-13: 9781503290280
ISBN-10: 150329028X
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

De ce să citești această carte

Această ediție este esențială pentru cei care doresc să descopere profunzimea din spatele mitului. Dincolo de aventura cu pirați și zâne, cititorul câștigă acces la documente istorice și recenzii de epocă ce explică impactul cultural al lucrării. Este recomandarea ideală pentru studenții la litere sau pentru colecționarii care caută o variantă academică, dar accesibilă, a operelor lui J. M. Barrie.

Despre autor

Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860–1937) a fost un romancier și dramaturg scoțian, a cărui carieră a fost marcată de un succes imens în epoca victoriană și eduardiană. Deși a scris numeroase piese cu substrat social, precum 'The Admirable Crichton', numele său rămâne indisolubil legat de crearea lui Peter Pan. Inspirația pentru personaj a venit din prietenia sa cu băieții familiei Llewelyn Davies, pe care i-a adoptat neoficial după moartea părinților lor. Traumatizat în copilărie de pierderea fratelui său mai mare, Barrie a explorat obsesiv în scrierile sale temele inocenței pierdute și ale refuzului maturizării.

Descriere scurtă

Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A mischievous boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang, the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Native Americans, fairies, pirates, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside of Neverland. In addition to two distinct works by Barrie, the character has been featured in a variety of media and merchandise, both adapting and expanding on Barrie's works.

Notă biografică

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) is a fixture of the English-language canon almost entirely on the strength of one creation: Peter Pan, who first appeared onstage in 1904 and then as the novel Peter and Wendy in 1911. Few fictional figures have traveled as far into ordinary culture - "Peter Pan syndrome," Neverland, and the given name Wendy (which Barrie is credited with popularizing as a name for real children) all originate with this one Scottish playwright and novelist. Barrie was already an established, successful writer and dramatist before Peter Pan; the character nonetheless eclipsed everything else he wrote and made him one of the most performed authors in the English theatrical repertoire. The book's origin is genuinely unusual and worth a library's attention on its own terms. Barrie lost an older brother, David, in a skating accident at age thirteen, and their mother's grief - she took comfort in imagining David frozen forever at that age - has long been read by biographers as the emotional root of Peter Pan's central idea: a boy who never grows up. Barrie later formed a close, well-documented friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family, whose sons were his model for the Lost Boys; he became the boys' guardian after their parents' early deaths, a relationship that has drawn ongoing biographical scrutiny. In 1929 Barrie gave the copyright to Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children, an unusual act of literary philanthropy that still funds the hospital's care today. Readers come to Peter Pan for the darker, stranger book behind the pantomime image - a story genuinely ambivalent about growing up, laced with real melancholy under the flight and swordplay. It rewards adults returning to it as much as it does children meeting it for the first time. This Clearview Editions large-print printing - 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, ragged-right, with no word-division - puts that fuller text within reach of low-vision and aging readers who usually meet Peter Pan only through film and stage adaptations.

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Relive the magic of finding Neverland in this beautiful Painted Edition of Peter Pan. This classic tale of never growing up and found family will delight new readers and old as they follow Wendy, Michael and John on this timeless adventure. Featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler in this exclusive collector's edition.
This magical classic tale of childhood is now available in an exclusive collector's edition, featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and decorative interior pages, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike.
Beloved by fans around the world Peter Pan is the story of a little boy who doesn't want to grow up. This time-honored classic is now available as an exclusive collector's edition.
Whether you're buying it as a gift or for yourself, this remarkable edition features:
  • A beautiful, high-end hardcover featuring Laci Fowler's distinctive hand-painted art and high-end embossing/debossing treatments to bring the art to life
  • Embossed cover art and gold foiling
  • Details of the story are incorporated into the cover art as surprise finds
  • Decorative interior pages featuring pull quotes throughout
  • Matching ribbon marker and gold page edges
  • Part of a 4-volume collection including Anne of Green Gables,?The Secret Garden, and?Winnie the Pooh
  • An excellent gift for teachers, librarians, or children's classic collectors
In pursuit of his lost shadow, a young boy named Peter Pan enters the bedroom of three children named Wendy, Michael, and John. After Wendy manages to reattach Peter's shadow, Peter asks the three children to come with him to Neverland, the place where they'll never have to grow up.
When Wendy and her brothers journey with Peter to Neverland and meet his ageless band of Lost Boys, they realize Neverland isn't as perfect as it seems when they meet the evil Captain Hook.
Exploring the time-honored themes of the magic of imagination, courage, and the beauty of parental love, this unique collector’s edition presents J. M. Barrie's beloved tale of friendship, memory, and family in a giftable new way.

Recenzii

For twenty-six years after his first mention of the character, J.M. Barrie worked on the story of Peter Pan as he appeared through different incarnations: the three-act play Peter Pan, or the Boy who Wouldn’t Grow Up (1904), the illustrated novella Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906), the Epilogue to the play “An After Thought” (1908), the full-length novel Peter and Wendy (1911), two short stories, and finally a longer version of the original play. This edition of Peter Pan includes not only the novel and revised play as they were first published, but also an earlier novella and the previously unpublished original play.
Appendices include materials from Barrie’s personal writings and contemporary reviews and illustrations.

“A unique achievement—the bringing together of Barrie’s various and scattered Peter Pan texts within a single volume. As such it is an absolute gift to Peter Pan devotees, containing as it does much material that is otherwise unavailable to the general reader. An added bonus is the inclusion of numerous contemporary reviews for both the play of 1904 and the later novelization of 1911.” — Andrew Birkin, author of J.M. Barrie and The Lost Boys
“This edition of Peter Pan is an exemplary work of scholarship, giving us not only the 1911 edition of the full novelization of this much edited and reproduced story, but also the 1904 slim pantomime version never before published, “An Afterthought” (1908), and the 1906 novella Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. The reader has in this edition a thorough exposure to this complicated text. Alton has chosen the Appendices carefully and wisely. Her Introduction meticulously covers the complicated history of the writing, editing, performing, and publishing of this famous story. And she provides us with a review of the major critical responses to the story. This edition of Peter Pan is simply the best we have.” — Roderick McGillis, The University of Calgary

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
J.M. Barrie: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Primary Text:
Peter and Wendy
Formative Texts:
Peter Pan, or the Boy who Wouldn’t Grow Up
“An After-Thought”
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews (Plays)
  1. Peter Pan, or the Boy who Wouldn’t Grow Up
    1. The New York Times (28 December 1904)
    2. The Times (28 December 1904)
    3. The Saturday Review (7 January 1905)
    4. The New York Times (12 November 1905)
    5. The New York Times (10 June 1906)
  2. “An After-Thought”
    1. The New York Times (15 March 1908)
Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews (Books)
  1. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
    1. The New York Times (4 December 1910)
    2. The New York Times (4 December 1910)
  2. Peter and Wendy
    1. The New York Times (22 October 1911)
    2. The Literary Digest (19 November 1911)
Appendix C: Peter Pan Material
  1. Barrie’s Manuscript Page of “Fairy” (1903)
  2. “Davy Jones’ Locker” (1904)
  3. Frank Gillette’s Costume Designs for 1905 London Production of Peter Pan, or the Boy who Wouldn’t Grow Up (1905)
  4. Maude Adams from the 1905 New York Production of Peter Pan, or the Boy who Wouldn’t Grow Up (1905)
  5. Pauline Chase from the 1907 Playbill Touring Production Poster of Peter Pan, or the Boy whoWouldn’t Grow Up (1907)
Appendix D: Related Texts by J.M. Barrie
  1. Preface to The Coral Island (1913)
  2. “Captain Hook at Eton” (1927)
  3. “To the Five” (1928)
Appendix E: Images and Illustrations
  1. “The Child’s Map of Kensington Gardens.” Illustration by Henry Justice Ford from The Little White Bird (1902)
  2. “Peter Pan’s Map of Kensington Gardens.” Illustration by Arthur Rackham from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
  3. J.M. Barrie’s Key to Kensington Gardens (1903)
  4. “We Feel Dancey.” Illustration by Arthur Rackham from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
  5. “Title Page.” Illustration by Francis Donkin Bedford from first edition of Peter and Wendy (1911)
  6. “Peter Flew In.” Illustration by Francis Donkin Bedford from first edition of Peter and Wendy (1911)
  7. “Peter Pan Playing Pipes” and “Wendy on Rock.” Illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell from Peter Pan and Wendy (1921)
  8. Diarmuid Byron-O’Connor’s Sculpture of Peter Pan at GOSH (2000)
Bibliography and Works Cited