Peter Pan

J.M. Barrie's 1911 novel is far darker and stranger than the Disney version suggests. Peter Pan is the boy who refused to grow up, living in Neverland with the Lost Boys, fighting pirates, and consorting with fairies. When he spirits Wendy, John, and Michael Darling away from their London nursery, they discover a world of adventure—but also of forgetting, of children who fall from their prams and are never claimed, of a boy who cannot understand love or loss because he cannot remember. Beneath the fantasy lies a profound meditation on childhood, memory, and the terrible cost of never growing up. A Raven's Gate Classics edition.