Thomas Hughes (1) (1822–1896)
Auteur de Tom Brown's School Days
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Thomas Hughes, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Séries
Œuvres de Thomas Hughes
Rugby Tennessee : being some account of the setllement founded on the Cumberland plateau ... (2008) 7 exemplaires
Memoir of Daniel Macmillan 4 exemplaires
G. T. T. Gone to Texas; letters from our boys 3 exemplaires
The Rugby Handbook of the English-American Colony on the Plateau of the Cumberland Mountains in East Tennessee (1996) 1 exemplaire
Tom Brown's school days. Part I 1 exemplaire
James Fraser, Second Bishop of Manchester 1 exemplaire
Tom Brown's SchoolDays Volume 1 [DVD] 1 exemplaire
Tom Brown's SchoolDays Vol. 2 1 exemplaire
Tom Brown's Schooldays, Uncle Tom's Cabin 1 exemplaire
Rugby, Tennessee; being some account of the settlement founded on the Cumberland plateau by the Board of aid to land… 1 exemplaire
Gone to Texas : letters from our boys 1 exemplaire
Tom Brown na escola 1 exemplaire
Tom Brown's schooltijd 1 exemplaire
Tom Browns School Days at Rugby 1 exemplaire
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One hundred best novels condensed: 3 of 4 see note: Adam Bede; Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Don Quixote; East Lynne;… — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Hughes, Thomas
- Date de naissance
- 1822-10-20
- Date de décès
- 1896-03-22
- Lieu de sépulture
- Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Uffington, Berkshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Uffington, England, UK (birth)
Wimbledon, Surrey, England, UK - Études
- Oxford University (Oriel College)
- Professions
- lawyer
Member of Parliament
author - Relations
- Hughes, John (14) (father)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 29
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 2,123
- Popularité
- #12,121
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 31
- ISBN
- 227
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 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.… (plus d'informations)