Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding and Alec Waugh.
The book describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his growing maturity as a young man.
Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding and Alec Waugh.
The book describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his growing maturity as a young man.
PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION
PART ONE
The Brown Family
The 'Veast'
Sundry Wars and AUiances
The Stage Coach.
Rugby and Football
After the Match
Settling to the Collar
The War of Independence
A Chapter of Accidents
PART TWO
How the Tide Turned
The New Boy
Arthur Makes a Friend
The Bird-fanciers
The Fight
Fever in the School
Harry East's Dilemmas and Deliverances
Tom Brown's Last Match
Finis