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The novel follows the life of its title character and protagonist, Tom Brown, from infancy to young manhood. Tom attends Rugby, a real public school for boys in Warwickshire, England. He is intelligent but is more interested in sports and other physical activities than in studying. The unwritten rules and traditions which all of the boys at Rugby follow are more important to Tom than the rules imposed by teachers, who Tom initially regards as his natural enemies. Although Tom cannot abide bullying (he suffers physical torment from the bully Flashman) and only fights to protect his friends, he becomes unruly and is frequently in trouble. In order to improve Tom's behavior, he is made to look after a younger and frailer boy named George Arthur. Tom helps Arthur to become stronger and more ou

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  • The novel follows the life of its title character and protagonist, Tom Brown, from infancy to young manhood. Tom attends Rugby, a real public school for boys in Warwickshire, England. He is intelligent but is more interested in sports and other physical activities than in studying. The unwritten rules and traditions which all of the boys at Rugby follow are more important to Tom than the rules imposed by teachers, who Tom initially regards as his natural enemies. Although Tom cannot abide bullying (he suffers physical torment from the bully Flashman) and only fights to protect his friends, he becomes unruly and is frequently in trouble. In order to improve Tom's behavior, he is made to look after a younger and frailer boy named George Arthur. Tom helps Arthur to become stronger and more ou
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  • The novel follows the life of its title character and protagonist, Tom Brown, from infancy to young manhood. Tom attends Rugby, a real public school for boys in Warwickshire, England. He is intelligent but is more interested in sports and other physical activities than in studying. The unwritten rules and traditions which all of the boys at Rugby follow are more important to Tom than the rules imposed by teachers, who Tom initially regards as his natural enemies. Although Tom cannot abide bullying (he suffers physical torment from the bully Flashman) and only fights to protect his friends, he becomes unruly and is frequently in trouble. In order to improve Tom's behavior, he is made to look after a younger and frailer boy named George Arthur. Tom helps Arthur to become stronger and more outgoing and, in return, Arthur shows Tom the value of honesty and hard work and teaches him not to be ashamed of his piety. Thomas Hughes attended Rugby School between 1834 and 1842 and drew heavily on his experiences there in writing Tom Brown's School Days. The character of Tom Brown is a composite character, based on the author himself and his older brother George Hughes. The novel has been adapted for the cinema three times, in 1916, 1940 and 1951, and adapted for British television twice, in 1971 and 2005. A musical based on the novel ran in London's West End in 1971. Tom Brown's Schhool Days was enormously influential on later British "school stories" of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. The British author George MacDonald Fraser used an adult version of the bully Flashman from Tom Brown's School Days as the central figure in a successful series of historical fiction novels. Hughes wrote a sequel to the novel called Tom Brown at Oxford. Although Tom Brown's School Days remains popular after more than one hundred and fifty years, Tom Brown at Oxford has faded into obscurity.
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