The Complete Adventures of Peter Pan & His Friends – All 7 Book in One Illustrated Edition. J. M. Barrie
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J. M. Barrie, Daniel O'Connor, Oliver Herford
The Complete Adventures of Peter Pan & His Friends – All 7 Book in One Illustrated Edition
The Little White Bird, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Peter and Wendy...
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-2409-8
Table of Contents
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
The Little White Bird
I. David and I Set Forth Upon a Journey
II. The Little Nursery Governess
III. Her Marriage, Her Clothes, Her Appetite, and an Inventory of Her Furniture
VIII. The Inconsiderate Waiter
XII. The Pleasantest Club in London
XIII. The Grand Tour of the Gardens
XX. David and Porthos Compared
I. David and I Set Forth Upon a Journey
Sometimes the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: “I shall be so pleased if you will come and see me,” and I always reply in some such words as these: “Dear madam, I decline.” And if David asks why I decline, I explain that it is because I have no desire to meet the woman.
“Come this time, father,” he urged lately, “for it is her birthday, and she is twenty-six,” which is so great an age to David, that I think he fears she cannot last much longer.
“Twenty-six, is she, David?” I replied. “Tell her I said she looks more.”
I had my delicious dream that night. I dreamt that I too was twenty-six, which was a long time ago, and that I took train to a place called my home, whose whereabouts I see not in my waking hours, and when I alighted at the station