Thomas Hughes (1) (1822–1896)
Autore di Tom Brown's School Days
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Serie
Opere di Thomas Hughes
Rugby Tennessee : being some account of the setllement founded on the Cumberland plateau ... (2008) 7 copie
Memoir of Daniel Macmillan 4 copie
The Rugby Handbook of the English-American Colony on the Plateau of the Cumberland Mountains in East Tennessee (1996) 1 copia
Tom Brown's school days. Part I 1 copia
Tom Brown's SchoolDays Vol. 2 1 copia
Tom Brown na escola 1 copia
Tom Brown's schooltijd 1 copia
Tom Browns School Days at Rugby 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Hughes, Thomas
- Data di nascita
- 1822-10-20
- Data di morte
- 1896-03-22
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Uffington, Berkshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Uffington, England, UK (birth)
Wimbledon, Surrey, England, UK - Istruzione
- Oxford University (Oriel College)
- Attività lavorative
- lawyer
Member of Parliament
author - Relazioni
- Hughes, John (14) (father)
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 29
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 2,123
- Popolarità
- #12,121
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 31
- ISBN
- 227
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 2
I found the novel amusing in many places, and pointed in its detailed description of the customs of school (Rugby) life, though it also dragged for me in places and it took me a longer to read than a novel of its length (slightly under 300 pages in my version) normally would. There is a real historical personage here - Dr Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of the real Rugby School at the time. The author, expressing his views and experiences through the title character, clearly has a lot of respect for Dr Arnold, and the changes he brought about to the "public" school system; as one (adult) character says "perhaps ours is the only corner of the British Empire which is thoroughly, wisely and strongly ruled just now".
The real central "character" of the novel, though, is probably the custom-bound way of life of the school itself, with its arcane traditions that the students value and revere more than the masters if anything. There are detailed descriptions of the original version of the sport of rugby as well as, of course, cricket, described by one character as "the birthright of British boys old and young, as habeas corpus and trial by jury are of British men", as it is an "unselfish game" that "merges the individual in the eleven; he doesn't play that he may win, but that his side may", as opposed to individual sports where the object is to win for oneself.
An interesting examination of the life and mores of a particular section of society at a particular time, but which has been massively influential on the literary genre well beyond that place and time.… (altro)