Peter Pan
Peter Pan is 45,781 words — about 3h 03m at 250 words per minute, across 17 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it here.
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How it opens
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 the…
Details
- AuthorJ. M. Barrie
- SourceProject Gutenberg #16
- Length45,781 words · 3h 03m of reading
- Chapters17
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
17 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Chapter I. PETER BREAKS THROUGH
- 02Chapter II. THE SHADOW
- 03Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!
- 04Chapter IV. THE FLIGHT
- 05Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE
- 06Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE
- 07Chapter VII. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND
- 08Chapter VIII. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON
- 09Chapter IX. THE NEVER BIRD
- 10Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME
- 11Chapter XI. WENDY’S STORY
- 12Chapter XII. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF
- 13Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?
- 14Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP
- 15Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”
- 16Chapter XVI. THE RETURN HOME
- 17Chapter XVII. WHEN WENDY GREW UP
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