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Peter and Wendy

J. M. Barrie

First published 1911 · Children's Classics & Global Mythology · 4 hr 26 min of audio · 17 chapters

The novel of Peter Pan: three children fly out of a nursery window to an island of pirates, mermaids and lost boys, guided by a boy who refuses to grow up and cannot remember anyone for long.

Things worth knowing

  • Barrie staged Peter Pan as a play on 27 December 1904, with Nina Boucicault in the title role, and only expanded it into this novel seven years later.
  • Asked in 1929 to lend his name to a hospital appeal, Barrie replied that he never did so on principle, then gave Great Ormond Street Hospital the copyright in Peter Pan, both the book and the play.

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  1. 1 Chapter One 15 min
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  2. 2 Chapter Two 16 min
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  3. 3 Chapter Three 24 min
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  4. 4 Chapter Four 16 min
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  5. 5 Chapter Five 19 min
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  6. 6 Chapter Six 15 min
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  7. 7 Chapter Seven 12 min
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  8. 8 Chapter Eight 22 min
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  9. 9 Chapter Nine 5 min
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  10. 10 Chapter Ten 11 min
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  11. 11 Chapter Eleven 14 min
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  12. 12 Chapter Twelve 8 min
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  13. 13 Chapter Thirteen 15 min
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  14. 14 Chapter Fourteen 13 min
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  15. 15 Chapter Fifteen 17 min
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  16. 16 Chapter Sixteen 15 min
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  17. 17 Chapter Seventeen 19 min
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Public domain by age everywhere. Separately subject to a perpetual UK royalty right that survives copyright.

Cover image: Image from The Story of Peter Pan by Alice Bolingbroke Woodward, 1915.

Narration: text-to-speech.

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