Tom Brown at Oxford


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Tom Brown's experiences at Rugby and Oxford helped create an enduring image of British public-school education and popularize the doctrine of Christian ethics in sports or "muscular Christianity."




Tom Brown at Oxford (Illustrated Edition)


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Hughes (1822-96) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author, best remembered for Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School which Hughes had attended, although the character Tom Brown was modelled on his brother George. This lesser-known sequel was first published in book form in 1861 following serialisation in Macmillan's Magazine.




Tom Brown's School Days


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The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe


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'The individual chapters are scholarly and up to the minute, without loss of accessibility or pace. The illustrations are many, apposite and refreshingly unhackneyed.' -Times Literary Supplement







Holidays on High Lands


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.




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The Advancement of Science


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