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His name has become a metaphor for one who will never growold.Peter Panby JM Barrie is the story of a boy who remains a boywhile the world around him changes.

Sir James Mathew Barrie was a Scottish playwright andnovelist whose works were received with great critical and commercial successin the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He discovered the maininspiration for his creative genius in his friendship (and later guardianship)with the children of Arthur and Sylvia Llewellyn-Davies. The Llewellyn-Daviesboys, five in number and related to the famous Du Maurier family, featured inmany of Barrie's stories and plays and some of these works were writtenspecifically for them.

Peter Pan was first introduced as a character in one ofBarrie's stories,The Little White Birdin 1901. Consequently, heappeared in a few other stories and plays and finally in 1904 made his debut ina full length play,Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Followingthe phenomenal success of the play, Barrie transformed it into a novel in 1911entitledPeter and Wendy.

Peter Pan is pure and delightful fantasy. Peter's characteris far from a “perfect child.” He is selfish, foolish, thoughtless and ignorantand this is where the real appeal of the book lies. Readers are preconditionedto believe that childhood and children must always be portrayed as good andinnocent. However, Barrie portrays Peter in all his authentic humanity andthat's what makes him so endearing because we truly see ourselves in Peter Pan.The descriptions are fascinating in their detail and intricacy, the dialog andconversations are absolutely spot on and Neverland is a brilliant example ofthe Utopia we all seek in its perfection and completeness. Captain Hook is atruly evil villain, while Tinkerbell shines in all her haughty magic.