Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding and Alec Waugh. 

The book describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his growing maturity as a young man.

Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding and Alec Waugh. 

The book describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his growing maturity as a young man.

PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION

PART ONE

The Brown Family

The 'Veast'

Sundry Wars and AUiances

The Stage Coach.

Rugby and Football

After the Match

Settling to the Collar

The War of Independence

A Chapter of Accidents

 PART TWO

How the Tide Turned

The New Boy

Arthur Makes a Friend

The Bird-fanciers

The Fight

Fever in the School

Harry East's Dilemmas and Deliverances

Tom Brown's Last Match

Finis