Tom Brown at Oxford
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Preface & Chapter Introductory
7:52 -
St. Ambrose's College
24:19 -
A Row on the River
29:56 -
A Breakfast at Drysdale's
33:45 -
The St. Ambrose Boat Club: Its Ministery and Their Budget
22:32 -
Hardy, the Servitor
21:50 -
How Drysdale and Blake Went Fishing
32:51 -
An Explosion
15:22 -
Hardy's History
36:05 -
"A Brown Bait"
17:25 -
Summer Term
34:09 -
Muscular Christianity
42:59 -
The Captain's Notions
34:24 -
The First Bump
30:48 -
A Change in the Crew, and What Came of It
29:42 -
A Storm Brews and Breaks
27:54 -
The Storm Rages
22:40 -
New Ground
31:28 -
Englebourne Village
46:08 -
A Promise of Fairer Weather
30:34 -
The Reconciliation
12:46 -
Captain Hardy Entertained by St. Ambrose
10:42 -
Departures Expected and Unexpected
26:01 -
The Englebourn Constable
35:59 -
The Schools
37:31 -
Commemoration
28:47 -
The Long Walk in Christchurch Meadows
41:33 -
Lecturing a Lioness
33:51 -
The End of the Freshman's Year
27:08 -
The Long Vacation Letter-Bag
33:26 -
Amusements at Barton Manor
17:48 -
Behind the Scenes
17:43 -
A Crisis
40:04 -
Brown Patronus
39:56 -
Mehden Agan
30:22 -
Second Year
27:45 -
The River Side
23:14 -
The Night Watch
26:29 -
Mary in Mayfair
23:39 -
What Came of the Night Watch
26:07 -
Hue and Cry
26:44 -
The Lieutenant's Sentiments and Problems
28:04 -
Third Year
35:59 -
Afternoon Visitors
28:00 -
The Intercepted Letter-Bag
37:27 -
Master's Term
17:29 -
From India to Englebourn
19:56 -
The Wedding-Day
19:50 -
The Beginning of the End
23:12 -
The End
22:57 -
The Postcript
21:21
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861) is a public domain work.
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Cricket coaches, college rooms and formal evening gatherings shape the Oxford world of Tom Brown. Thomas Hughes's 1861 novel places university study alongside the friendships and habits that surround it. The supplied opening describes lectures, private reading, rowing contests and distinctions between wealthy students and those who must earn their support. These details make education part of a larger social setting, where money and standing affect the people a student meets.
A scene with Mary and Katie brings that setting into conversation. Watching a coach of returning cricketers, they discuss the students' manners and an evening at the Vice-Chancellor's. Tom's greeting to his cousin soon prompts his companions to ask for introductions. The exchange gives a lively view of college sociability and the expectations surrounding visitors. Readers interested in nineteenth-century student life will find a novel attentive to sport, social rank and everyday etiquette.
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- Thomas Hughes
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