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Tom Brown's School Days

First published: 1857
Pages: 395

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Pt.1 Ch.1 The Brown Family
35:17
Pt.1 Ch.2 The Veast
39:18
Pt.1 Ch.3 Sundry Wars and Alliances
41:10
Pt.1 Ch.4 The Stage Coach
31:26
Pt.1 Ch.5 Rugby and Football
41:57
Pt.1 Ch.6 After the Match
35:57
Pt.1 Ch.7 Settling to the Collar
40:42
Pt 1 Ch 8 The War of Independence
40:31
Pt.1 Ch.9 A Chapter of Accidents
42:00
Pt.2 Ch.1 How the Tide Turned
24:32
Pt.2 Ch.2 The New Boy
26:23
Pt.2 Ch.3 Arthur Makes a Friend
29:05
Pt.2 Ch.4 The Bird-Fanciers
26:26
Pt.2 Ch.5 The Fight
33:42
Pt.2 Ch.6 Fever in the School
34:01
Pt.2 Ch.7 Harry East’s Dilemmas and Deliverances
31:00
Pt.2 Ch.8 Tom Brown’s Last Match
42:22
Pt.2 Ch.9 Finis
15:04

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Thomas Hughes drew on his own years at Rugby to create the boy who became the template for every school story that followed. Tom arrives at Rugby in the 1830s a cheerful, scrappy newcomer and works his way through fistfights, the casual cruelty of the bully Flashman, cricket matches, and the steadying friendship of the frail, devout young George Arthur. Under the real headmaster Dr. Arnold, whom Hughes revered, Tom grows from a reckless boy into a young man with a conscience. The book helped fix the Victorian ideal of muscular Christianity, with its emphasis on decency, courage, and fair play, and it carried Rugby's name far beyond England. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

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Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) was an English lawyer, social reformer, and Member of Parliament. A Christian Socialist and Rugby old boy, he wrote fiction, biography, and reform tracts, but he is remembered almost entirely for this single novel, drawn straight from his schooldays.

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