Peter and Wendy: The Restored Text (Annotated)

Peter Pan is vanishing. Unauthorized changes have tinkered with J.M. Barries magic. How can we know that the book we call Peter Pan is presented the way Barrie first penned it? Since the mid-20th century readers couldnt be certain─ until this edition.With the award-winning Hook & Jill Saga the Reginetta Press drew grown-up readers back to the Neverland. Now it carries us to the Island again this time on the wings of Barries own words....All children except one grow up. Peter Pan himself grew in his authors imagination from the true boys Barrie knew to the infant of The Little White Bird to the Wonderful Boy on stage to his familiar form in Peter and Wendy. But no evolution of Barries text is necessary for us to revel in his Neverland─ in any era and at any age.With Peter and Wendy: The Restored Text the Reginetta Press preserves the integrity of Barries manuscript before it is lost to time. All other versions stand second-to-the-right of J.M. Barries.This Reginetta Press edition replicates the exact text of J.M. Barries 1911 novelization of the Peter Pan story Peter and Wendy and reproduces the F.D. Bedford illustrations.With supplemental material documenting the development of J.M. Barries concept of Peter Pan over the years: --The Evolution of Peter Pan tracing the growth of the Peter Pan mythology;--Editors supplement: A Gift of Ghosts revealing background and insight into the origin of Peter Pan in J.M. Barries personal life.--Text restored to original form which editions since the mid-20th century may have changed or deleted.--Includes all 14 illustrations created by F.D. Bedford rarely seen and now restored from the first edition in 1911.