J. M. Barrie 1 hr 18 min read

In Kensington Gardens after lock-out time, the baby Peter Pan flies off to live among the fairies and birds, a boy who never grew up before Neverland ever was.

J. M. Barrie's 1906 stories, in this 1910 edition gorgeously illustrated by Arthur Rackham, are the earliest Peter Pan tales. Enchanting, wistful, beautiful. Read it for the tender origin of Peter Pan, the half-bird boy of the London gardens, in a treasured Rackham-illustrated edition.

In its time

Published in 1910, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 18 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Arthur Rackham