Idle yet brave, mischievous yet lively, Tom Brown embodies both the ordinary boy of his era and the enduring hero later celebrated by writers as different as Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) and Alec Waugh (in The Loom of Youth). The narrative traces his years at Rugby School, opening with his first football match and following him through a turbulent adolescence, including savage bullying at the hands of the unspeakable Flashman, until he departs school life as a self-assured young man. First published in 1857 to great acclaim, this classic account of schooldays overseen by the benevolent Dr Arnold has lost none of its appeal. The lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford, carries our hero on to St Ambrose’s College, where his undergraduate experiences offer a vivid picture of university life in the mid-nineteenth century.
ISBN 13: 9781853261084
Author: Thomas Hughes
