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Tom Brown's Schooldays

De : Thomas Hughes
Lu par : Hugh Bonneville
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The story of young Tom Brown's seemingly hideous years spent at rugby school and his spirited and astonishingly stalwart response to the institutionalised bullying prevalent at the 'Great' British public schools became exactly the campaigning tool its author hoped it would.

The regimes at these schools had been largely unchallenged, with the assumption being that the education and training received were the best. The revelations in Hughes' book of the beatings and the burnings uncovered a system which had been all but hidden.

Hughes had been a schoolboy at rugby school in the 1830s when the school was run by the educational reformer Dr. Thomas Arnold. Dr. Arnold's idealism transferred itself wholesale to the young Hughes, and the good doctor appears towards the end of Tom Brown's Schooldays as the young master, bearing the light of possible redemption.

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Clearly, boys who will shortly be attending a “public school” constituted the intended audience for this book published in 1857. Often, they are addressed directly, in a fatherly tone … that some may have considered paternalistic.

It reads more like a memoir than a novel and tells of the years spent by the title character in Rugby, the school attended by the author and his brother some two decades earlier. In fact, the plot is very linear, and the characters are little developed and somewhat flat.

Read two centuries later and in another continent, the book reflects a foreign, by-gone era, all-boys boarding schools having practically disappeared. Thus, the book’s interest is largely sociological. Two things are most striking: corporal punishment, that is now considered as anything but pedagogical, and team sports, a major British contribution to modern world culture that is very often not appreciated as such.

In the audio version, Hugh Bonneville does an outstanding job with narration as he manages to bring to life the whole work, including descriptions of cricket matches that may nevertheless be abstruse to many.

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