Thomas Hughes: 56 books

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3 works of Thomas Hughes English lawyer and author (1822-1896) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Thomas Hughes. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Tom Brown at Oxford Tom Brown at Rugby. Tom Brown's Schooldays

Thomas Hughes (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer, judge and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861). Hughes had...

The Best Works of Thomas Hughes   Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet Loyola and the Educational System Tom Brown at Oxford Tom Brown at Rugby Tom Brown's School Days

Best known as the author of Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), Thomas Hughes was immensely proud of his Berkshire roots. Riding on the success of his most famous creation, Hughes accepted an invitation to write a guidebook to the customs and traditions of his native region. Deciding that a straightforward...

Thomas Hughes (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer, judge and author. He is mostly known for his novel Tom Brown’s School days, which was partially based on his own biography. Hughes had numerous other interests, in particular as a Member of Parliament, in the British co-operative...

[Preliminary Note.—Having somewhat rashly consented to write a short biographical preface to a volume of selections to be made in America from the writings of my friend, Mr. Hughes, I applied to him directly for the needful facts and dates. His answer was an autobiographical letter which I found so...

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collections include a linked table of contents. Thomas Hughes was a prominent English writer during the Victorian...

The 'Flashman Compendium' is a collection of source texts, histories, poems, maps and pictures that offers further reading to fans of the 'Flashman' series, revealing in greater detail the astonishing true stories and historical events on which the famous series of novels was based. Originally...

Thomas Hughes’s biography of David Livingstone (1813-1873) follows the legendary Scottish explorer’s life from his impoverished childhood to his missionary work in Africa, where he would remain for thirty years and where he discovered Victoria Falls. This is an enthralling account of Livingstone’s extraordinary accomplishments.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Thomas Hughes’ novel about the mischievous but kind-hearted schoolboy Tom Brown inspired other school novels, including Frank Richards’ Billy Bunter stories and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. The...

Young Tom Brown comes of age in Thomas Hughes’ classic story Tom Brown’s School Days. Sent to a new private school part-way through the year, Tom Brown must navigate the complicated world of private-school pranks and alliances, and find a way to defeat the school bully, Harry Flashman. A...

The follow-up to the much-beloved Tom Brown's Schooldays, Thomas Hughes' novel Tom Brown at Oxford follows the rowdy but good-hearted protagonist as he leaves his school-boy days behind him and begins his academic career at university. Although the main character has matured, he still has the same proclivity for hijinks and finds himself entangled in a series of scrapes and mishaps.

The great success of the festival (or “pastime,” as it is called in the neighbourhood) which was held on White Horse Hill on the 17th and 18th of September, 1857, to celebrate the “Scouring of the Horse,” according to immemorial custom, led the Committee of Management to think that our fellow-county-men...