Peter Pan
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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
- Length45,515 words · 3h 02m of reading
- Chapters1
- DictionaryNot yet generated
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
1 chapters
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- 01Peter Pan
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