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In their heyday, the English public schools inspired an astonishing effusion of novels and stories about school life, of which "Tom Brown's Schooldays" is perhaps still the best known, and was certainly the most influential. Continually counterpointing school life as it really was with its fictional image, Isabel Quigly discusses her chosen stories in relation to those themes which recur in the genre: the cult of games, the love story, the boarding school as a training ground for the Empire, schoolboy heroics and an extraordinary preoccupation with death. Her range is wide: from classics like "Stalky & Co", "Anstey's Vice Versa", and P.G. Wodehouse's school stories, to the schoolgirl tales of Angela Brazil: from nostalgic and snobbish accounts of Eton to Alec Waugh's daring and precocious novel, "The Loom of Youth". "The Heirs of Tom Brown" is an entertaining and original investigation into the literary, social and cultural history of the English school story. 'An excellent guide to this curious but interesting chapter in social and literary history' - John Rae, "Listener".

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Children’s & teenage literature studies

• Full title: Heirs of Tom Brown
• Subtitle: The English School Story
• Author: Isabel Quigly
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780571251537
• ISBN: 0571251536
• ID: 04623994
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 380 g
• Dimensions: 136 × 216 × 36 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. May 2009

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