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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.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Tom Brown's Schooldays is part novel, part education theory, but it is a great read. It is true that boys these days are unlikely to incur the wrath of their friends for not recognising a beech tree on sight, and that particular incident highlights the difference between the world described and the world as we know it. Despite this, it does not present an unrecognisable world and it actually allows us to look back on a time and a tradition long gone from modern Britain, and to smile at the innocence of children in the Victorian Era. The characters are what keeps the novel alive. To watch Tom grow from young boy to troublemaker to responsible, caring young man ready for Oxford, is a moving experience. The cast of characters around him ensure that he gets into all sorts of scrapes along the way, and the portrait painted of the great Dr. Thomas Arnold is one of a very intelligent, strong, yet caring man who quietly goes about the business of turning Tom into a young man worthy of praise. It is true that this book contains possibly the worst opening chapter in all of English literature, but get past that and you'll discover something quite special.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I first tried to read this when I was 12 and found it very heavy going. Several attempts later, I managed it all the way through and was very glad I did. The glimpses of lost England it gives are fascinating and anyone skipping the first chapter misses so much legend and history. I grew up in this area of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and found this chapter very interesting.
Yes, it is sentimental, but you have to remember the time in which it was written. It is probably the first ever school story written and one of the first fiction books for children that aimed at entertaining rather than merely lecturing.
Yes, it is sentimental, but you have to remember the time in which it was written. It is probably the first ever school story written and one of the first fiction books for children that aimed at entertaining rather than merely lecturing.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ignore the first chapter which is one of the worst written book openings ever. The rest of the book describes in incredibly sentimental terms a young boy's education at Rugby. The boy's adventures are compelling not least to have an idea of what an English Public school was in the early 1800s. The best part however, concerns the fabulous character that Thomas Hughes created in the bully Flashman. You need to have read this book to fully appreciate the genius of the Flashman Papers subsequently written by George MacDonald Fraser. Thomas Hughes' book is seminal work and must be viewed as a great reference book.
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Understanding the ethos of Rugby football
I'm sure many of us of a certain age will remember reading Thomas Hughes's story of young Tom Brown moving to Rugby school in the 1850's and discovering the early version of the... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Sydney Carton
Take the time to read this true classic
At the time of writing we see the UK in chaos and disorder, socially and financially. The old adage says, "Seek the ancient paths. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Dr John N Sutherland
Can't imagine who'd read this today
I read this in the 1970s when there was a TV adaptation, and was surprised at how little they resembled each other. Read more
Published 10 months ago by schlockhorror
Not a good book really.
SPOILER ALERT
Once I had made the decision to read the "Flashman" books, I thought I ought to read the book that gave rise to the character of Harry Flashman. Read more
Once I had made the decision to read the "Flashman" books, I thought I ought to read the book that gave rise to the character of Harry Flashman. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Snowman
Schooldays nostalgia
More than a century since it was written, it is still relevant to issues faced by schoolchildren today. Bullying being one obvious subject. Read more
Published 19 months ago by M. Ekemode
Influential School Novel
"Tom Brown's Schooldays" by Thomas Hughes (1822 - 1896) was originally published in 1857, and clearly inspired other school novels for many years to come. Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2009 by Dave_42
Great
Jeeze louise, after taking more than three weeks to mull over the first hundered pages of this at times hard going but brilliant book i finished the following two hundered in about... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2003 by mike
Entertaining
Despite a somewhat cloying sentimentality I enjoyed this book and found it amusing and touching. Flashman is a wonderfully despicable character, in fact probably more palatable... Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2001 by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley
Everything that was great about an English childhood!
Despite a rathre odd first chapter, Tom Brown's Schooldays is a wonderful book about the adventures of public school life. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 1999
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