Tom Brown's School Days (Paperback)

from lucybrown

One of the few thorns in my college literature classes! Tom Brown was part of the syllabus of our Victorian literature class not because of its literary value but as a portrait of the Victorian psychology. After all, it was schools like Rugby which shaped the great writers, thinkers, empire build...

from lucybrown

One of the few thorns in my college literature classes! Tom Brown was part of the syllabus of our Victorian literature class not because of its literary value but as a portrait of the Victorian psychology. After all, it was schools like Rugby which shaped the great writers, thinkers, empire build...

from SeriousGrace

Victorian-era literature always gets to me. I know that Tom Brown's School Days centers on the manner and customs of the mid 1850s and is the basis for the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser, but I found myself completely bored. Aside from the great illustrations this wasn't the most ente...

from mumfie

There is a charm to this book and a gentility that makes other school books pale in comparison. It's a bit pious for modern day readers but it tells the tale of how Tom Brown arrived at Rugby a bit rough and ready and left it a relatively civilised young man, having had some splendid adventures a...

from lucybrown

One of the few thorns in my college literature classes! Tom Brown was part of the syllabus of our Victorian literature class not because of its literary value but as a portrait of the Victorian psychology. After all, it was schools like Rugby which shaped the great writers, thinkers, empire build...