The first in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious Flashman series and the classic they pay homage to available together for the first time in ebook format.Uproarious, nefarious and sociable at the same time, Tom Brown is at once the typical boy of his generation and the perennial hero. Tom Brown’s School Days charts our protagonist’s time at Rugby, taking his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the brutal Flashman, to his departure – with the world at his feet.In Flashman, meanwhile, George MacDonald Fraser’s inspired spin-off from Hughes’ classic, we see Brown’s tormentor from an entirely different perspective. Expelled from Rugby for drunkenness, and none too welcome at home after seducing his father’s mistress, the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord Cardigan’s Hussars.En route to Afghanistan, our hero hones his skills as a soldier, duellist, imposter, coward and amorist (mastering all 97 ways of Hindu love-making during a brief sojourn in Calcutta), before being pressed into reluctant service as a secret agent. His Afghan adventures culminate in a starring role in that great historic disaster, the Retreat from Kabul.
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Thomas Smart Hughes. Tom Brown’s School Days and Flashman
Tom Brown’s School Days. by Thomas Hughes. and. Flashman. by George MacDonald Fraser
Table of Contents
Tom Brown’s School Days. by Thomas Hughes
Contents
CHAPTER I—THE BROWN FAMILY
CHAPTER II—THE “VEAST.”
CHAPTER III—SUNDRY WARS AND ALLIANCES
CHAPTER IV—THE STAGE COACH
CHAPTER V—RUGBY AND FOOTBALL
CHAPTER VI—AFTER THE MATCH
CHAPTER VII—SETTLING TO THE COLLAR
CHAPTER VIII—THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER IX—A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS
PART II
CHAPTER I—HOW THE TIDE TURNED
CHAPTER II—THE NEW BOY
CHAPTER III—ARTHUR MAKES A FRIEND
CHAPTER IV—THE BIRD-FANCIERS
CHAPTER V—THE FIGHT:
CHAPTER VI—FEVER IN THE SCHOOL
CHAPTER VII—HARRY EAST’S DILEMMAS AND DELIVERANCES
CHAPTER VIII—TOM BROWN’S LAST MATCH
CHAPTER IX—FINIS
Table of Contents
Explanatory Note
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Notes
Glossary
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Tom Brown’s School Days: by Thomas Hughes
Flashman: by George MacDonald Fraser
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I’ll tell you what to do now: instead of all this trumpeting and fuss, which is only the old parliamentary-majority dodge over again, just you go, each of you (you’ve plenty of time for it, if you’ll only give up t’other line), and quietly make three or four friends—real friends—among us. You’ll find a little trouble in getting at the right sort, because such birds don’t come lightly to your lure; but found they may be. Take, say, two out of the professions, lawyer, parson, doctor—which you will; one out of trade; and three or four out of the working classes—tailors, engineers, carpenters, engravers. There’s plenty of choice. Let them be men of your own ages, mind, and ask them to your homes; introduce them to your wives and sisters, and get introduced to theirs; give them good dinners, and talk to them about what is really at the bottom of your hearts; and box, and run, and row with them, when you have a chance. Do all this honestly as man to man, and by the time you come to ride old John, you’ll be able to do something more than sit on his back, and may feel his mouth with some stronger bridle than a red-tape one.
Ah, if you only would! But you have got too far out of the right rut, I fear. Too much over-civilization, and the deceitfulness of riches. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. More’s the pity. I never came across but two of you who could value a man wholly and solely for what was in him—who thought themselves verily and indeed of the same flesh and blood as John Jones the attorney’s clerk, and Bill Smith the costermonger, and could act as if they thought so.
