Peter Pan (play and novel)

Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, often known simply as Peter Pan, is a work by the British novelist J. M. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel titled Peter and Wendy. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous boy who can fly and has adventures on the island of Neverland, which is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans and pirates. The stories also feature Wendy Darling and her two younger brothers John and Michael, Peter's fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys and the pirate Captain Hook. The play and novel were inspired by Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. The play debuted at the Duke of York's Theatre in London on 27 December 1904, and Barrie kept revising it until the script was published in 1928. The novel was first published on 18 October 1911 by Hodder and Stoughton in the UK. In 1929 Barrie gave the copyright of the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, a children's hospital in London.