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Illustrated |
Year Printed: |
1927 |
Country/Region of Manufacture: |
United Kingdom |
Original/Reproduction: |
Original |
Language: |
English |
Place of Publication: |
London |
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Children, School story |
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Fiction Subject: |
Children’s Literature |
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Hardback |
Format: |
Hardback |
Illustrator: |
Percy Tarrant |
Author: |
Thomas Hughes |
Character Family: |
Tom Brown, Harry Flashman, Harry "Scud" East |
Publisher: |
George G. Harrap & Company Ltd |
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Item number: |
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Item description
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Illustrated with colour plates by Percy Tarrant
Hughes,
Thomas
Followed by: Tom Brown at Oxford
Characters: Tom Brown, Harry Flashman,
Harry "Scud" East
Published by George G. Harrap
Company Ltd, London, 1927
Used/ Hardcover
Tom
Brown's School Days (sometimes written Tom Brown's Schooldays, also published
under the titles Tom Brown at Rugby, School Days at Rugby, and Tom Brown's
School Days at Rugby) is an 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes. The story is set in
the 1830s at Rugby School, a public school for boys. Hughes attended Rugby School
from 1834 to 1842. The novel was originally published as being "by an Old
Boy of Rugby", and much of it is based on the author's experiences. Tom
Brown is largely based on the author's brother George Hughes. George Arthur,
another of the book's main characters, is generally believed to be based on
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. The fictional Tom's life also resembles the author's,
in that the culminating event of his school career was a cricket match. The
novel also features Dr Thomas Arnold (1795?1842), who was the actual headmaster
of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841. Tom Brown's School Days has been the source
for several film and television adaptations. It also influenced the genre of
British school novels, which began in the 19th century, and led to fictional
depictions of schools such as Billy Bunter's Greyfriars School, Mr Chips'
Brookfield, St. Trinian's, and Harry Potter's Hogwarts. A sequel, Tom Brown at
Oxford, was published in 1861.
Item
Description
A very well-preserved vintage copy with colour plates by
Percy Tarrant. Published by George G. Harrap Company Ltd, London,
1927. Hardcover Edition. Very Good Condition. Olive green boards with brown
illustration and lettering on the front and to spine. 312pp.
About
the author
Thomas Hughes QC (20 October 1822 ? 22
March 1896) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most
famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical
work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel,
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861). Hughes had numerous other interests, in particular
as a Member of Parliament, in the British co-operative movement, and in a
settlement in Tennessee reflecting his values. Hughes wrote his famous story
Tom Brown's School Days, which was published in April 1857. He is associated
with the novelists of the "muscular school", a loose classification
but centred on the fiction of the Crimean War period. Although Hughes had never
been a member of the sixth form at Rugby, his impressions of the headmaster
Thomas Arnold were reverent. Statue of Thomas Hughes at Rugby School Hughes
also wrote The Scouring of the White Horse (1859), Tom Brown at Oxford (1861),
Religio Laici (1868), Life of Alfred the Great (1869) and the Memoir of a
Brother. His brother, George Hughes, was the model for the Tom Brown character.
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