Tom Brown's Schooldays (Oxford World's Classics)

Tom Brown's Schooldays (Oxford World's Classics) by Hughes, Thomas. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780192835352.

One of the classics of English childrens literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, this novels steady popularity has given it an influence well beyond the upper middle-class world that it describes. It tells a story central to an understanding of Victorian life, but its freshness helps to distinguish it from the narrow schoolboy adventures that it later inspired. The book includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders.