Download PDF Tom Brown&rsquos School Days Collins Classics Audible Audio Edition Thomas Hughes Icyjumbo Betty Publisher Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 10 hours and 2 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Betty Publisher Audible.com Release Date January 16, 2019 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B07MGJ2JQF

Tom Brown&rsquos School Days Collins Classics Audible Audio Edition Thomas Hughes Icyjumbo Betty Publisher Books Reviews

• This is a fake book edition, like someone photocopied, or on a cheap home pinter printed pages at 50% reduction of size in microscopic size 6 font, with some pages on angles, and half the pages white with huge borders, and with smallest type ever seen in a book, with no real publishing info, on cheapo paper with a cover photo as if it were a thumbnail from the internet at low resolution and stretched to wrong proportions, with no page numbers and no table of contents and missing this book's illustrations. TOTAL JUNK WORTHLESS. I'M SHOCKED AMAZON IS THE SELLER OF THIS FRAUD POSING AS A REAL EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC BOOK.
• I came upon this book about 45 years ago, when a school friend gave it to me as a Christmas present back in 1975. I read it then, but could hardly understand the story. 45 years on, I downloaded it on my & started reading it, and for me the story was new. I enjoyed reading this book so much, even it was meant for young school guys, but to be honest there are a lot to learn from this story, even if you are mature in age. I suggest that if young guys read this book, they read it slowly & try to understand what they are reading. Even to this day, such books are good moral food for young & old alike.
• The book is wonderful - but this specific edition is unreadable. The print is tiny, and I agree with another reviewer who noted it looks like it has been photocopied. Buy another edition of this excellent story.
• It's a classic -- what else can be said? I read this years ago for school and also watched the English series, then decided to read it again. What's interesting, is that I came away with a very different impression than the first reading and the series. It was a lot darker than I remember and elements of good vs bad were more defined. No longer a story of innocence, but one of a larger purpose.
• This was great fun, not as much fun as a Flashman novel but still an interesting book. It's a little preachy, trying to reform English "public" schools and like many nineteenth century books uses five words where one would have done but it was fun to see where Flashman got his education.
• Surprisingly entertaining book. I've long heard the title, but had never gotten around to reading it. Interesting and humorous insights into life in the Rugby school for boys in 1840s England, written by a very gifted author. Some heavy doses of moralizing along the way, since it seemed to have a primary goal of moral uplift for young gentlemen of the better classes, convincing them to become "fine Christian English gentlemen."
• It would be churlish to write the usual sort of review, with positive and negative points, of a book regarded, and in my opinion quite rightly so, as a classic. I, like most people who went to school in England in the second half of the twentieth century, read, or perhaps was made to read, `Tom Brown's School Days'. Rereading it today, this time because I chose to, was interesting from two aspects. Firstly, to enjoy the feeling of being immersed in what happened in an English Public School in the second half of the nineteenth century (probably not much different from what happens today?). Secondly, to see how much my mental image of the story was wrong after 50 years. "Tom Brown's School Days is all about the antics Tom got up to in his early years at school, and the clashes with school bully Flashman", I would have said if asked (probably in retrospect, influenced by the TV series of the book). And yes, it does contain these elements, but they are relatively small parts, especially the Flashman incidents. The book is about Tom's development as he passes through the formative teen years. There is a lot of moralistic philosophising, and Thomas Hughes certainly wrote the book as a `road map' for young boys. This latter point was completely lost on me the first time round, teacher-led reading - perhaps I had poor teachers. Well worth going back to read.
• I had decided to re-read some childhood classics. Today I just finished reading "Tom Brown's School Days". I read it first as a 12 year old 8th, grader, and struggled with the literary style. Today I was pleasantly amazed and entertained with that same style and vocabulary and found the subject not only entertaining and humorous but a stimulant to memories of my grades 1-6 one room shoolhouse days as well especally where natural setting and outdoor activities were detailed. Wonderful story! A good read for anyone. I heartily recommend it.