Tom Brown's School Days - Softcover

Hughes, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1519720424 ISBN 13: 9781519720429

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

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 We do not publish facsimile versions or use Optical Recognition equipment.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.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Hughes (1822 - 1896), was a student at Rugby School and wrote this classic work in the mid-1800s. Hughes later went on to write a sequel (Tom Brown at Oxford), and also became a Member of Parliament. Doctor Thomas Arnold is the only person in the novel who is a true historical figure, the other characters, Hughes said later, were composites of boys whom he knew at school.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1519720424
• ISBN 13: 9781519720429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270