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Tom Brown's Schooldays & Tom Brown at Oxford Paperback – 20 November 1997
by
THOMAS HUGHES
(Author)
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Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) and Alec Waugh (in The Loom of Youth). The book describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his departure for a wider world as a confident young man. This classic tale of a boy's schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication in 1857. In its less well-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford, we follow our hero to St Ambrose's College, and, in sharing his undergraduate experiences, gain a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century. AUTHOR Thomas Hughes (1822 - 1896) attended Rugby School. The school and its headmaster, Dr Thomas Arnold, served as his inspiration for 'Tom Brown's School Days', an adventure based on life in a public school.
- ISBN-101853261084
- ISBN-13978-1853261084
- EditionNew Ed
- PublisherWordsworth
- Publication date20 November 1997
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions12.5 x 3.5 x 20 cm
- Print length752 pages
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- Publisher : Wordsworth
- Publication date : 20 November 1997
- Edition : New Ed
- Language : English
- Print length : 752 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1853261084
- ISBN-13 : 978-1853261084
- Item weight : 227 g
- Reading age : 9 - 12 years
- Dimensions : 12.5 x 3.5 x 20 cm
- Grade level : 4 - 7
- Best Sellers Rank: 937,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 2,273 in Fiction Classics for Young Adults
- 26,838 in Classic Literature & Fiction
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- Amazon CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2019
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Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseA very old book, so a little difficult to read, I wish someone had told my uncle that 40 years ago before he bought it for me I could never read it then, which was partly my reason for getting it now, an interesting insight into that era....also a first introduction to Harry Flashman and that may lead you to 12 jems..
- V.M.W.Reviewed in the United States on 10 July 2014
3.0 out of 5 stars More historical value than entertainment or even literary value
Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseI never would have enjoyed it for its plotline, but its a fascinating look into Victorian schooling, and how children, especially boys, were raised and what thoughts and sentiments they were raised to hold. We read it in light of the impending Crimeian and Boer Wars as well as the Great War's outbreak--you really see in the values that were instilled in the students how they grew to be the young men that initially at least, as no one enjoyed the tragic blood-baths that awaited them there, they were happy to go on, as Churchill first called it, a jolly little war.