Tom Browns School Days
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Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
When a man comes to my time of life and has his bread to make, and very little time to spare, is it likely that he will spend almost the whole of his yearly vacation in writing a story just to amuse people? At any rate, I wouldn't do so myself. Although there were as many as 90 stories set in British boarding schools published between Sarah Fielding 's The Governess, or The Little Female Academy in and , [5] Tom Brown's School Days was responsible for bringing the school story genre to much wider attention.
It also directly inspired J. Rowling 's Harry Potter series, set at the fictional boarding school Hogwarts.
The book contains an account of a game of rugby football , the variant of football played at Rugby School with many differences from the modern forms. The book's popularity helped to spread the popularity of this sport beyond the school. In Japan, Tom Brown's School Days was probably the most popular textbook of English-language origin for high-school students during the Meiji period — A subsequent, two-part, Japanese translation by Tsurumatsu Okamoto and Tomomasa Murayama appeared in and , which, in addition to the previous omissions, also omitted the scene at the cricket match, due to the translators' stated ignorance of the game of cricket.
Another partial translation, consisting only of part 1 of the book, was released in by schoolteacher Nagao Tachibana. A fourth translation, also abridged, by Sada Tokinoya arrived in Finally, a complete translation was released in that eventually ran to ten separate editions. In the U. The character of Flashman was adapted by the British writer George MacDonald Fraser as the adult narrator and hero or anti-hero of his popular series of "Flashman" historical novels called The Flashman Papers.
In one of them, Flashman in the Great Game , the character whom Fraser named Harry Flashman reads Tom Brown's School Days , which refers to his youth, and its popularity causes him some social troubles. Flashman also encounters the character of "Scud" East twice, first in Flashman at the Charge , when both he and East are prisoners of war during the Crimean War , and again in Flashman in the Great Game , at the Siege of Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny of From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This article is about the novel. For its film and television adaptations, see Tom Brown's Schooldays film. Harry Flashman and The Flashman Papers.
All the bits you liked as a child are here - the football match on the first day, the hares and hounds, the roasting of poor Tom in front of an open fire. But there's an awful lot of boring stuff too. Five long chapters pass before our young hero actually arrives at Rugby, by which time we've been made to endure a rambling preface about his native Vale of Berkshire, including a wearisome account of one ancient villager trying to cure "rhumatis" with a visit to the local faith healer.
The second half of the book, meanwhile, is taken up with Tom's spiritual development, making it less a jolly romp about young toffs in white trousers and more a junior Pilgrim's Progress. By the time you get to the end of the book's pages, quite possibly on your knees, the earlier joys of scoffing two pennorth of murphies from Sally Harrowell's tuck shop is merely a cheery memory.
Initially I wondered if the reason I'd misremembered so much of Thomas Hughes's classic was because the Puffin edition I read as a child had been edited to make it more suitable for rhumatis-free year-olds. But no, I still have that book and a quick flick reveals that all the throat-clearing about Berkshire folklore, not to mention the sticky religiosity, is there. The date, though, of this edition gives a clue: Filtering out the boring bits, it rattled along at the licky pace required of a Sunday-afternoon children's serial, albeit one with stilted dialogue, laughably posh accents and stately camerawork.
So it must have been this version, rather than Hughes's original, that had insinuated itself into my brain and from there morphed into a kind of phantom text.
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I'm sure I'm not alone in this. Tom Brown is one of the most nipped and tucked works of English literature. It has been filtered through many screen adaptations - there was a TV outing with Stephen Fry and Alex Pettyfer in , a film with Robert Newton and John Howard Davies, and even an early silent movie - each of which eschews Hughes's worthy plot points in favour of something larkier.
So you won't find much about the rights and wrongs of taking the sacrament if you're not confirmed, something that exercises Tom and his best friend East for more pages than might seem likely. But chances are you will find the scenes where the boys draw the Derby lottery and fight "louts" local lads. Still, the original must have done something right, because it spawned a whole genre of boarding school stories that is still going strong today. Mostly these later tales lightened up on Hughes's ponderous moralising while taking on his appealing and perceptive archetypes of small boy life.
So the hero still tends to be an Everyman with a yeoman name Bunter, Jennings, Potter , a simple heart and an appetite for the kind of mischief that is never cruel.
His best friend will be a stalwart adjutant, slightly lighter on charisma. Then there'll be a clever one, called "Brains" or "The Prof", physically shambolic but with a knowledge base that would prove handy if sitting the fellowship exam for All Souls.
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In the case of Tom Brown's Rugby, this chap is Madman Martin, who regularly blows up his study with gunpowder but is a brilliant "natural philosopher". Finally there will be the inspirational house captains, stately boy-men such as Young and Old Brooke, whose rule is firm but fair. What Hughes accommodated quite brilliantly was that obsessive interest child readers have always displayed in the detail of other small people's lives, no matter how different from their own.
He gives chapter and verse on who is allowed to fag for whom, what time "calling over" is, and exactly how many lines of Latin prep each class generally prepares and how this differs from the official tariff laid down by masters. Pocket money and bedtimes also figure large. It's this level of procedural detail that JK Rowling develops so effectively in her Harry Potter series the school rules at Hogwarts state that first years are allowed to bring an owl, cat or toad. Hughes would have been astonished, though not especially gratified, at the way Tom Brown bequeathed a whole new genre.