Author: Thomas HughesPublisher:
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Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Tom Brown's School Days
Author: Thomas HughesTom Brown's School Days. By an Old Boy. [i.e Thomas Hughes]
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Author: Thomas HughesTom Brown at Oxford
Author: Thomas HughesPublisher:
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Category : Endowed public schools (Great Britain)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Flashman
Author: George MacDonald FraserPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101633794
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman."– P.G. Wodehouse Fraser revives Flashman, a caddish bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and relates Flashman’s adventures after he is expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Flashy enlists in the Eleventh Light Dragoons and is promptly sent to India and Afghanistan, where despite his consistently cowardly behavior he always manages to come out on top. Flashman is an incorrigible anti-hero for the ages. This humorous adventure book will appeal to fans of historical fiction, military fiction, and British history as well as to fans of Clive Cussler, James Bond, and The Three Musketeers. Flashman is the first book of the famous “Flashman Papers” series.
Tom Brown's School Days
Author: Thomas HughesPublisher:
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Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Recounts the adventures of a young English boy at Rugby School in the early nineteenth century.
The Scouring of the White Horse
Author: Thomas HughesPublisher:
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Category : Clerks
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Author: Thomas HughesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Recounts the adventures of a young English boy at Rugby School in the early nineteenth century.
Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game
Author: George MacDonald FraserPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0307592685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Three of George MacDonald Fraser’s incomparable and hilarious novels featuring the lovable rogue, soldier, cheat, and coward: Harry Paget Flashman. Praised by everyone from John Updike to Jane Smiley, Fraser was an acknowledged master of comedy and satire, an unrivaled storyteller, whose craft was matched only by his impeccable historical research. And his greatest creation was, of course, Flashman. The novels collected here find our hero in the midst of his usual swashbuckling adventures of derring-do: fleeing adversaries in the First Anglo-Afghan War; meeting and nearly deceiving a young Abraham Lincoln in America; alternately impersonating a native Indian cavalry recruit and wooing women in India; and managing, whatever the circumstances, to keep his hero’s reputation unsullied. A must-have treat for the legions of dedicated Flashman fans, and a delightful introduction for those lucky enough to be encountering him for the first time.
A Social History of English Rugby Union
Author: Tony CollinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134023340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
From the myth of William Webb Ellis to the glory of the 2003 World Cup win, this book explores the social history of rugby union in England. Ever since Tom Brown’s Schooldays the sport has seen itself as the guardian of traditional English middle-class values. In this fascinating new history, leading rugby historian Tony Collins demonstrates how these values have shaped the English game, from the public schools to mass spectator sport, from strict amateurism to global professionalism. Based on unprecedented access to the official archives of the Rugby Football Union, and drawing on an impressive array of sources from club minutes to personal memoirs and contemporary literature, the book explores in vivid detail the key events, personalities and players that have made English rugby. From an era of rapid growth at the end of the nineteenth century, through the terrible losses suffered during the First World War and the subsequent ‘rush to rugby’ in the public and grammar schools, and into the periods of disorientation and commercialisation in the 1960s through to the present day, the story of English rugby union is also the story of the making of modern England. Like all the very best writers on sport, Tony Collins uses sport as a prism through which to better understand both culture and society. A ground-breaking work of both social history and sport history, A Social History of English Rugby Union tells a fascinating story of sporting endeavour, masculine identity, imperial ideology, social consciousness and the nature of Englishness.
Flashman at the Charge
Author: George MacDonald FraserPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101633840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
“Hilariously funny.”—The New York Times Book Review “Great dirty fun!”—Grand Rapids Press “The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time… Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next… Wonderful and scandalous.”—Publishers Weekly The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade. Part of the Flashman series, comprising Flashman, Royal Flash, and Flash for Freedom, among others, which explores the successful though scandalous later career of the bully in Tom Brown's School Days.