书名：Peter Pan 彼得·潘
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数410L
作者：J. M. Barrie詹姆斯·马修·巴利
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：1987
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451520883
商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.4 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：208

Peter Pan《彼得·潘》是英国知名作家詹姆斯·巴里的成名作。该故事原本为舞台剧，作者将剧本小说化并于1911年首次出版，原名为Peter Pan and Wendy《彼得·潘与温迪》。一百多年以来，《彼得·潘》在各国舞台上反复上演，多次被拍为电影，并译成各种文字。彼得·潘这个不肯长大的男孩，已经成为西方世界无人不知的人物，象征着永恒的童年和永无止境的探险精神。世界儿童文学经典之作，描述了一个至真至纯的儿童世界，大人和小孩都适合阅读。

本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，由Alison Lurie后记，内容完整无删减，书本小巧便携。 

Generations of readers have traveled to Neverland and all the secret places of a child’s heart. A story rich in adventure, humor, and sadness, J.M. Barrie’s masterpiece remains a stirring call to flights of imagination.

With a magic and emotional appeal unmatched by any other story, Barrie’s Peter Pan speaks directly to childhood’s dreams and desires with an imaginative genius that evokes both laughter and tears. Peter, the boy would wouldn’t grow up; Nana, the Darling children’s nurse and pet Newfoundland; deliciously dreadful Captain Hook, who is stalked by a crocodile with a clock in his stomach; and Tinker Bell, “quite a common fairy,” who swears like a sailor and is murderously jealous—these characters of startling originality are rich, funny, mischievously insightful, and a joy to read about again and again. The result is a masterpiece of literature that has been working its timeless wonderment on us since it first appeared.
 
With an Afterword by Alison Lurie
Illustrated by Sergio Martinez

Peter Pan《彼得·潘》是一个与成长有关的童话。故事里的彼得·潘是一个会飞的、不愿长大也永远不会长大的小男孩。天真活泼、疾病恶如仇、聪明勇敢的他，趁达林夫妇不在家，带领着小女孩温迪和她的两个弟弟，一起飞向了有着精灵、人鱼、海盗、印第安人的梦幻岛。在那里，他们开始了童话般的生活……
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates.
The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as Captain Hook explains “liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since, licking his lips for the rest of me”. After lots of adventures, the story reaches its exciting climax as Peter, Wendy and the children do battle with Captain Hook and his band.

J. M. Barrie詹姆斯·马修·巴利，英国小说家、剧作家。他出生于苏格兰一个织布工人家庭，家里第九个孩子。自幼酷爱读书、写作，从爱丁堡大学毕业后成为一名记者。1885年移居伦敦后成为自由作家并开始创作小说和剧本，他一生创作了三十多部作品，Peter Pan《彼得·潘》是其久负盛名的一部，至今仍为世界各国圣诞节必演的魔幻剧目。为了表彰他的文学建树，爱丁堡大学、牛津大学和剑桥大学均授予他文学博士学位。英国女王赐予他从男爵的贵族称号。其他代表作有Little Minister《小牧师》、The Admirable Crichton《孤岛历险记》等。
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) was a bestselling writer well before he created Peter Pan. His famous children’s plays grew from stories he had made up for the young sons of his friends Arthur and Sylvia Davies. First performed in 1904, Peter Pan was such a success it became an annual Christmas event. In 1911, Barrie novelized the play. Upon his death, Barrie left the copyright for Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.
Alison Lurie is the bestselling author of such novels as The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Foreign Affairs. She has also written extensively about children’s literature, including Don’t Tell the Grownups, Boys and Girls Forever, and, as co-editor, the Garland Library of Children’s Classics. She is F. J. Whiton Professor of American Literature Emeritas at Cornell University. 

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 forever!” 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 is 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.

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