Tom Brown's Schooldays and Tom Brown at Oxford (Wordsworth Classics)

Thomas Hughes

ISBN 10: 1853261084 / ISBN 13: 9781853261084

Editore: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, United Kingdom, Herts, 1993

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. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Codice articolo GOR000384989

Riassunto:

Tom Brown's Schooldays is one of the classics of English children's literature and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys.

L'autore: Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer, politician, and author best known for his semi-autobiographical classic Tom Brown's School Days. Trained as a lawyer, Hughes was appointed a county-court judge before being elected to the British Parliament. Hughes was also a committed social reformer, and was one of the founders and later principal of Working Men's College. His interest in social structures led him to become involved with the model village, and he later founded a settlement that experimented with utopian life in Tennessee. In addition to Tom Brown, Hughes penned The Scouring of the White Horse, Tom Brown at Oxford, Life of Alfred the Great, and Memoir of a Brother. He died in 1896.

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Titolo: Tom Brown's Schooldays and Tom Brown at ...
Casa editrice: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, United Kingdom, Herts
Data di pubblicazione: 1993
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good