Peter and Wendy
core novel 1911 Peter Pan
Record
| First published | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.03 (379,496 ratings, collected 2026-09-24) |
| Page count | 224 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780141322575 |
Synopsis
In an Edwardian London household, Mrs. Darling finds that all three of her children, Wendy, John and Michael, keep thinking about a boy called Peter Pan, who slips into their nursery at night. When the family's dog and nursemaid, Nana, traps his shadow as he flees, Peter comes back to recover it and meets Wendy, who agrees to come away with him and be a mother to the boys he leads. He flies off with all three children to the Neverland, an island of mermaids, fairies, pirates and the Lost Boys, the motherless children who live there with Peter and never grow up. There Wendy keeps house for them in their underground home, while Peter's jealous fairy Tinker Bell resents her and the pirate Captain Hook, Peter's sworn enemy, schemes against them all from his ship.
Where it sits
- Universe: Peter Pan
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: J.M. Barrie
Notes
- A boy who refuses to grow up leads the Darling children from their London nursery to the island of Neverland, where they meet fairies, mermaids and the pirate crew of Captain Hook.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Peter Pan (standalone work): position 2 of 2: previous Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
Sources
- Wikipedia
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/peter-pan-peter-and-wendy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Darling
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