PANEGYRIC by Kenneth N. Kurtz

Panegyric  is a romantic comedy. It is 1905 and three men who never really grew up find their shades delivered to the perfect purgatory. Oscar Wilde dallies (quite innocently) with a beautiful boy, Lewis Carroll flounders with a young and fetching mermaid, and Paul Gauguin chases after a nubile native princess. Of course they all learn to fear the ticking sound of the crocodile. You guessed it. Their souls have been delivered to the Neverland. This is a sequel to Peter Pan, and now is the centenary of that lovely classic, which two prequel novels by humorist Dave Barry, and an estate commissioned sequel as well as a Johnny Depp biopic have helped to celebrate — to say nothing of the recent film version of the original play, plus Peter And The Starcatcher as well as Finding Neverlandrunning on Broadway.