Tom Brown's School-Days Author:Thomas Hughes Illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan, St Martin's Library version — This was written for Hughes son in 1884 (?), but is a classic that still is reprinted, by many companies. — Tom Brown's School Days is known as Thomas Hughes best work. It is based on Hughes's own school experiences at Rugby under the headship of Thomas Arnold. — 1895. The classic sto... more »ry of life at Rugby, a boys' boarding school in Victorian England, as seen through the eyes of a new pupil coping with bullies and a sympathetic new headmaster« less