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Sentimental Tommy

by J. M. BARRIE (1860 - 1937)

Chapter 13: SHOWS HOW TOMMY TOOK CARE OF ELSPETH

"J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tommy novels, as they are collectively referred to, are also about a child who does not want to grow up. Yet, unlike Peter Pan, he has to. Tommy grows up in the slums of London at the end of the 19th century in difficult conditions. This book explores his boyhood. How would his childhood fantasies collide with the hard conditions in which he lives and the reality of his growing up? The Tommy novels are considered semi-autobiographical." - Summary by Stav Nisser.

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Listen next episodes of Sentimental Tommy:
Chapter 14: THE HANKY SCHOOL , Chapter 15: THE MAN WHO NEVER CAME , Chapter 16: THE PAINTED LADY , Chapter 17: IN WHICH TOMMY SOLVES THE WOMAN PROBLEM , Chapter 18: THE MUCKLEY , Chapter 19: CORP IS BROUGHT TO HEEL--GRIZEL DEFIANT , Chapter 20: THE SHADOW OF SIR WALTER , Chapter 21: THE LAST JACOBITE RISING , Chapter 22: THE SIEGE OF THRUMS , Chapter 23: GRIZEL PAYS THREE VISITS , Chapter 24: A ROMANCE OF TWO OLD MAIDS AND A STOUT BACHELOR , Chapter 25: A PENNY PASS-BOOK , Chapter 26: TOMMY REPENTS, AND IS NONE THE WORSE FOR It , Chapter 27: THE LONGER CATECHISM , Chapter 28: BUT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MISS KITTY , Chapter 29: TOMMY THE SCHOLAR , Chapter 30: END OF THE JACOBITE RISING , Chapter 31: A LETTER TO GOD , Chapter 32: AN ELOPEMENT , Chapter 33: THERE IS SOME ONE TO LOVE GRIZEL AT LAST , Chapter 34: WHO TOLD TOMMY TO SPEAK , Chapter 35: THE BRANDING OF TOMMY , Chapter 36: OF FOUR MINISTERS WHO AFTERWARDS BOASTED THAT THEY HAD KNOWN TOMMY , Chapter 37: THE END OF A BOYHOOD