"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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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Tommy Contrives to Keep One Out
23:34 - Chapter 2
Chapter 2: But The Other Gets In
17:45 - Chapter 3
Chapter 3: SHOWING HOW TOMMY WAS SUDDENLY TRANSFORMED INTO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN
23:56 - Chapter 4
Chapter 4: THE END OF AN IDYLL
23:44 - Chapter 5
Chapter 5: THE GIRL WITH TWO MOTHERS
15:07 - Chapter 6
Chapter 6: THE ENCHANTED STREET
16:00 - Chapter 7
Chapter 7: COMIC OVERTURE TO A TRAGEDY
14:19 - Chapter 8
Chapter 8: THE BOY WITH TWO MOTHERS
20:40 - Chapter 9
Chapter 9: Auld Lang Syne
14:37 - Chapter 10
Chapter 10: THE FAVORITE OF THE LADIES
22:03 - Chapter 11
Chapter 11: AARON LATTA
18:15 - Chapter 12
Chapter 12: A CHILD'S TRAGEDY
21:10 - Chapter 13
Chapter 13: SHOWS HOW TOMMY TOOK CARE OF ELSPETH
09:48 - Chapter 14
Chapter 14: THE HANKY SCHOOL
15:49 - Chapter 15
Chapter 15: THE MAN WHO NEVER CAME
19:15 - Chapter 16
Chapter 16: THE PAINTED LADY
16:00 - Chapter 17
Chapter 17: IN WHICH TOMMY SOLVES THE WOMAN PROBLEM
11:55 - Chapter 18
Chapter 18: THE MUCKLEY
24:28 - Chapter 19
Chapter 19: CORP IS BROUGHT TO HEEL--GRIZEL DEFIANT
20:07 - Chapter 20
Chapter 20: THE SHADOW OF SIR WALTER
19:14 - Chapter 21
Chapter 21: THE LAST JACOBITE RISING
20:22 - Chapter 22
Chapter 22: THE SIEGE OF THRUMS
17:40 - Chapter 23
Chapter 23: GRIZEL PAYS THREE VISITS
12:56 - Chapter 24
Chapter 24: A ROMANCE OF TWO OLD MAIDS AND A STOUT BACHELOR
29:30 - Chapter 25
Chapter 25: A PENNY PASS-BOOK
19:50 - Chapter 26
Chapter 26: TOMMY REPENTS, AND IS NONE THE WORSE FOR It
18:03 - Chapter 27
Chapter 27: THE LONGER CATECHISM
13:29 - Chapter 28
Chapter 28: BUT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MISS KITTY
09:30 - Chapter 29
Chapter 29: TOMMY THE SCHOLAR
19:06 - Chapter 30
Chapter 30: END OF THE JACOBITE RISING
19:38 - Chapter 31
Chapter 31: A LETTER TO GOD
19:47 - Chapter 32
Chapter 32: AN ELOPEMENT
26:05 - Chapter 33
Chapter 33: THERE IS SOME ONE TO LOVE GRIZEL AT LAST
20:42 - Chapter 34
Chapter 34: WHO TOLD TOMMY TO SPEAK
20:03 - Chapter 35
Chapter 35: THE BRANDING OF TOMMY
24:48 - Chapter 36
Chapter 36: OF FOUR MINISTERS WHO AFTERWARDS BOASTED THAT THEY HAD KNOWN TOMMY
27:41 - Chapter 37
Chapter 37: THE END OF A BOYHOOD
18:23