(Oddly enough, it's the super-intelligent nursemaid dog that breaks my suspension of disbelief, not the flying, or the children who never grow up, or any of the more obviously fantastical elements.) It does have a lot of charm, though, and some of the adventures are genuinely pretty exciting. It's also stranger than I remember, with a few elements that sit on the borderline between the whimsical and the just plain weird. Barrie's writing style and themes, and are generally pretty skippable, but there's plenty of other supplementary material in this volume, including a short but illuminating biography of Barrie, a (slightly pretentious) essay on the text, a very detailed outline Barrie wrote for a silent film version that was never produced, some beautiful illustrations from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (an earlier work that introduced Peter Pan as an infant), a brief overview of various theatrical treatments of Peter Pan and of Barrie's life, and a fair amount of other stuff.As for the novel itself, I hadn't read it since I was a kid, and it's actually much better than I remember it being. The annotations mostly consist of bits of the editor's analysis of J.
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