Books with title Tom Brown's School-days Volume 2 1888

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In Thomas Hughes’ classic schoolboy novel, the reader follows the adventures of Tom Brown as he leaves his home in the Vale of the White Horse, Berkshire, and begins life at Rugby School in the 1830s. Tom’s school career at Rugby starts well, but he begins to lose his way, finding himself in many scrapes and difficulties with Flashman - the school bully, the masters, other boys, as well as local land-owners. Finally he appears before the Headmaster, Dr. Arnold, the man whom Tom fears more than anyone. Will the Doctor need to remove Tom from the school, or can he find a way to arrest Tom’s downward spiral of behaviour? The reader follows the action, and in the end Tom does have to leave Rugby, however not as a young, thoughtless boy, but as a strong, courageous and thoughtful man who has learned from the Doctor that there is an even greater Master yet. This Cameron Collectible volume is a full-length, unabridged edition, and includes a preface written by Thomas Hughes that is omitted by many other publishers. It is available only as a printed volume, (i.e. unavailable on kindle) and restricted to 2,000 copies worldwide. The cover picture is of Rugby School, painted by Norman Wilkinson and used with permission from the National Railway Museum / Science & Society Picture Library. 'Cameron Collectibles' are all individually typed and carefully edited, to ensure that the reading experience is not hampered by poor proofing or textual errors. We do not publish facsimile versions or use Optical Recognition equipment. See www.cameron-collectibles.blogspot.com for more details of the range we offer and the work we do.

Tom Brown's School Days Thomas Hughes 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. Tom Brown is energetic, stubborn, kind-hearted and athletic, rather than intellectual. He follows his feelings and the unwritten rules of the boys. The early chapters of the novel deal with his childhood at his home in the Vale of White Horse. Much of the scene setting in the first chapter is deeply revealing of Victorian England's attitudes towards society and class, and contains a comparison of so-called Saxon and Norman influences on England. This part of the book, when young Tom wanders the valleys freely on his pony, serves as a contrast with the hellish experiences in his first years at school. His first school year is at a local school. His second year starts at a private school, but due to an epidemic of fever in the area, all the school's boys are sent home, and Tom is transferred mid-term to Rugby School. On his arrival, the eleven-year-old Tom Brown is looked after by a more experienced classmate, Harry "Scud" East. Tom's nemesis at Rugby is the bully Flashman. The intensity of the bullying increases, and, after refusing to hand over a sweepstake ticket for the favourite in a horse race, Tom is deliberately burned in front of a fire. Tom and East defeat Flashman with the help of Diggs, a kind, comical, older boy. In their triumph they become unruly. 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.

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Excerpt from School Days at RugbyThomas hughes was born on October 20, 1822, in Berk shire, in the little village of Uffington, where his grandfather was Vicar. This grandfather was also a Canon of St. Paul's and spent half of his time in London, where his little grandson was a frequent visitor. Most of Hughes' boyhood, however, was spent in close companionship with his elder brother, George, in the country at the foot of the Berkshire chalk hills, in a district in which his father was a busy magistrate. His earliest formal education commenced at Twyford, near Win chester. In a letter to James Russell Lowell, Hughes com merited upon the characteristic in this school, which most deeply impressed him. The best feature about it, he wrote.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.