Основной контент книги Peter Pan
Tekst

Objętość 180 stron

0+

Peter Pan

Peter & Wendy
399 ₽
21,17 zł

O książce

Barrie never described Peter's appearance in detail, even in the novel Peter and Wendy (1911), leaving much of it to the imagination of the reader and the interpretation of anyone adapting the character. Barrie mentions in Peter and Wendy that Peter Pan still had all of his «first teeth». He describes him as a beautiful boy with a beautiful smile, «clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that flow from trees». In the play, Peter's outfit is made of autumn leaves and cobwebs. His name and playing the flute or pipes suggest the mythological character Pan.


Traditionally, the character has been played on stage by an adult woman.


Peter Breaks Through


"All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, «Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!» This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.


Of course they lived at 14 [their house number on their street], and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.


The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her. He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door.


Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.


Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been totting up. They were Mrs. Darling's guesses. Wendy came first, then John, then Michael. .."

Gatunki i tagi

Zaloguj się, aby ocenić książkę i zostawić recenzję
Książka James Matthew Barrie «Peter Pan» — czytaj fragment książki za darmo online. Zostaw komentarze i recenzje, głosuj na ulubione.
Ograniczenie wiekowe:
0+
Data wydania na Litres:
13 listopada 2024
Objętość:
180 str.
ISBN:
9786155564468
Właściciel praw:
Bookwire
Audio
Średnia ocena 4,9 na podstawie 122 ocen
Szkic
Średnia ocena 5 na podstawie 24 ocen
Audio
Średnia ocena 4,5 na podstawie 241 ocen
Tekst
Średnia ocena 4,3 na podstawie 294 ocen
Tekst, format audio dostępny
Średnia ocena 4,7 na podstawie 558 ocen
Tekst
Średnia ocena 4,9 na podstawie 365 ocen
Tekst
Średnia ocena 0 na podstawie 0 ocen
Tekst
Średnia ocena 0 na podstawie 0 ocen
Tekst
Średnia ocena 0 na podstawie 0 ocen
Tekst
Średnia ocena 0 na podstawie 0 ocen
Audio
Średnia ocena 0 na podstawie 0 ocen
Audio
Średnia ocena 0 na podstawie 0 ocen
Tekst
Średnia ocena 5 na podstawie 1 ocen
Tekst
Średnia ocena 0 na podstawie 0 ocen