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Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 9781178238556 Books

Product details Paperback 586 pages Publisher Nabu Press (September 3, 2010) Language English ISBN-10 9781178238556 ISBN-13 978-1178238556 ASIN 1178238555

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Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 9781178238556 Books Reviews

This book is the sequel to the English school-boy classic Tom Brown School Days. However, while Tom Brown School Days has been continuously republished since its first edition in 1857, Tom Brown at Oxford has not been republished since 1910. In this edition, the protagonist is again an incarnation of Thomas Hughes' own life, this time his experiences as an athletic and rambunctious undergraduate at Oxford in the tumultuous 1840's. Tom Brown, like Hughes, is drawn into the upheavel of his times, specifically the socialist uprisings that found a more popular literary voice in several of Charles Dickens' works. Brown is also a commited Christian and his socialism is tied up with his faith. I have made this book an annual read because I find that the compromises and the ambitions of the times have not changed as much in the last 160 years as some people might have thought. Hughes' challenges the modern reader to look past our proclivity toward passivity and cynicism and to believe that real change, both individually and as a culture can happen. He also paints a pretty compelling vision of why this is desireable.
I purchased this book as a birthday present for my mom since she really enjoyed the prequel. However, I would love to have known just how imperfect the scanning process was before I chose this edition. I was fine with a facsimile of the original, but an unpleasantly high number of the pages are half covered with black "smudges" that look sorta like someone didn't flatten the original document against the scanner properly. It's definitely not a book to read just for fun if you can get a clearer edition elsewhere.
I am often amazed that this wonderful classic is so often overlooked and am extremely saddened that it is not longer in print. The author's style and syntax is pure Victorian, through and through with wonderfully convoluted sentences, and indeed, paragraphs. This work, which takes place during the mid 1800s, circa 1840, is the story of a young man in a English Public School (which, unlike in the U.S. is actually a private school to which only the elite can afford to attend). This story takes off after Tom, our hero, has graduated from Rugby and is now attending Oxford. Tom is oler now, and as to be expected, his social consciene, and envolves all the entails. While not absolute, this work is obviously autobiographical in nature. When this work is read, the reader must keep in mind when it was written, the society in which it was written and most importantly, the attitude of the society in which it was written. I was first introduced to this work well over forty years ago and have given it several reads since that time. I strongly suspect that many young readers of today may find the syntax difficult at first, but if they press on, there is so much to learn from this book. As another reviewer well pointed out, some of the events addressed here are not what you would call "politically correct" by our standards to day in this country, but then we must remember when and where it was written. Any student of the history of literature or a student of our language will most likely be fascinated with this work. I highly recommend.
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A review The Atlantic SEPTEMBER 1861 ISSUE- Many men write successful books; but very few have the power of making a book succeed by naturalness, simplicity, and quiet strength, as Mr. Hughes found the secret of doing in his “School-Days at Rugby.” It is so easy to be elegant,—scarce a modern French novelist but has the gift of hit by the ream; so easy to be philosophical,—one has only to begin a few substantives with capitals; and withal it is so hard to be genial and agreeable. Since Goldsmith’s day, perhaps only Irving and Thackeray had achieved it, till Mr. Hughes made himself the third. It is no easy thing to write a book that should seem so easy,—to describe your school-days with such instinctive rejection of the unessential, that whoever has been a boy feels as if he were reading the history of his own, and that your volume shall be no more exotic in America than in England. Yes this Mr. Hughes accomplished; and it was in a great measure due to the fact that beneath the charm of style the reader felt a real basis of manliness and sincerity.
His second book, “The Scouring of the White Horse,” was less successful,—in part from the narrower range of its interest, and still more, perhaps, because it lacked the spontaneous of the “School-Days.” In his first book there was no suggestion of authorship; it seemed an inadvertence, something which came of itself;—but the second was made, and the kind fairy that stood godmother to its elder brother had been sent for and accordingly would not come.
In this first number of his new story Mr. Hughes seems to have found his good genius again, or his good genius to have found him. We meet our old friend Tom Brown once more, and commit ourselves trustingly to the same easy current of narrative and incident which was so delightful in the story of his Rugby adventures. We have no doubt that the book will be instructive as well as entertaining; for we believe the author has had some practical experience as a teacher in “The Working-Men’s College,”—an excellent institution, in which instruction is given to the poor after work-hours, and which, beside Mr. Hughes, has another man of genius, Mr. Ruskin, among its unpaid professors. The work is to be published simultaneously in this country and in England.