Boarding Schools: "Tom Brown's Schooldays" by Thomas Hughes

The Brown`s schooldays - Thomas Hughes


(Original Review, 1981-01-22)



The issue of class and elitism (subjects dear to my heart) are, paradoxically, less important in these boarding school books than the fact that the children/teenagers are on a metaphorical island. They are without what in fictional terms is either the safety belt of having parents to look after them if they get into scrapes or of the social realism of having to deal with boring, dull, irritating parents in the form and shape the reader is likely to meet.
 
 
 
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