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Tom Brown's School Days

by Thomas Hughes

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Malory Towers

Book · 1946

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Hughes invented the form and Blyton is writing inside it ninety years later, with the furniture intact: a new pupil arriving alone, houses that compete, a bully who is eventually understood, sport as the moral arena, and a headmistress whose approval is the plot's currency. What Blyton changes is who it is for. Tom Brown is a boys' book about becoming a Victorian gentleman; Malory Towers is a girls' book about becoming somebody, and the school is a place you are sent to rather than sentenced to.

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Tom Brown's School Days

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Tom Brown's School Days By Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown is an energetic, kind-hearted, and athletic boy. The novel tells of his life in mid-19th Century England at Rugby Public School. He acts according to his feelings and the unwritten rules of the boys around him more than adults' rules. He is harassed by the school bully, Flashman, Tom's principal enemy.