Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes

Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

This edition of one of the classics of English children's literature - and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys - contains reprints of the illustrations drawn for the 1869 reissue of the novel by the artist Arthur Hughes.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes

A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown's Schooldays has long had an influence well beyond the middle-class, public school world that it describes. An active social reformer, Hughes wrote with a freshness, a lack of cant, and a kind, relaxed tolerance which keeps this novel refreshingly distinct from other schoolboy adventures. This edition is the only one available, and comes with the outstanding 1869 illustrations by Arthur Hughes. This book is intended for general, students of Victorian and schoolboy fiction, and at Colleges of Further Education.
Hughes, Thomas: -

Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) was born at Uffington, Berks, and educated at Rugby and Oriel College, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1848, becoming a county court judge in 1882. He was a Christian Socialist and supported trade unionism and helped to found the Working Men's College and a settlement in Tennessee, USA. He wrote a number of biographies and social studies, but he is primarily remembered as the author of the semi-autobiographical public school classic, Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857).

SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780192821980
ISBN 10 0192821989
Title Tom Brown's Schooldays
Author Thomas Hughes
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1989-09-01
Number of pages 456
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.