Sentimental Tommy by J.M. Barrie

The story revolves around a young boy named Tommy who is known for his mischievous and selfish behavior. He is often cruel to those around him, including his family members. However, when he is away from home, he transforms into a kind and gentle person. As Tommy grows older, he becomes increasingly aware of the negative impact his actions have on others. He begins to feel guilty for his past behavior and starts to make amends with those he has wronged. The novel explores themes of childhood innocence, guilt, and redemption as Tommy navigates his way through adolescence and into adulthood.

By J.M. Barrie · First published 1896 · Genre: Bildungsroman, Drama, Social Commentary · 37 chapters

Contents

• Tommy Contrives to Keep One Out
• But the other Gets In
• Showing how Tommy was Suddenly Transformed into a Young Gentleman
• The End of an Idyll
• The Girl with Two Mothers
• The Enchanted Street
• Comic Overture to a Tragedy
• The Boy with Two Mothers
• Auld Lang Syne
• The Favorite of the Ladies
• Aaron Latta
• A Child's Tragedy
• Shows how Tommy Took Care of Elspeth
• The Hanky School
• The Man who Never Came
• The Painted Lady
• In which Tommy Solves the Woman Problem
• The Muckley
• Corp is Brought to Heel -- Grizel Defiant
• The Shadow of Sir Walter
• The Last Jacobite Rising
• The Siege of Thrums
• Grizel Pays Three Visits
• A Romance of Two Old Maids and a Stout Bachelor
• A Penny Pass-Book
• Tommy Repents, and is None the Worse for It
• The Longer Catechism
• But it should have been Miss Kitty
• Tommy the Scholar
• End of the Jacobite Rising
• A Letter to God
• An Elopement
• There is some One to Love Grizel at Last
• Who Told Tommy to Speak
• The Branding of Tommy
• Of Four Ministers who Afterwards Boasted that they had Known Tommy Sandys
• The End of a Boyhood

More by J.M. Barrie

• Margaret Ogilvy (1888)
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
• David and I Set Forth Upon a Journey (1917)
• The Little Nursery Governess (1871)
• Her Marriage, her Clothes, her Appetite, and an Inventory of Her (1908)
• A Night-Piece (1895)
• The Fight for Timothy (1912)
• A Shock (1918)
• All works by J.M. Barrie