Tom Brown's School Days: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tom Brown's School Days, credited to Thomas Hughes, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes. Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010). Tom Brown’s Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes first published in 1857. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in the 1830s. Hughes attended Rugby School from 1834 to 1842. The novel was originally published as being “by an Old Boy of Rugby”, and much of it is based on the author’s experiences. Tom Brown is largely based on the author’s brother, George Hughes; and George Arthur, another of the book’s main characters, is based on Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. The fictional Tom’s life also resembles the author’s in that the culminating event of his school career was a cricket match. Tom Brown was tremendously influential on the genre of British school novels, which began in the 19th century, and is one of the few still in print. A sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford, was published in 1861 but is not as well known. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tom Brown's School Days
• Author credits: Thomas Hughes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 10:10:53

Catalogue topics

• novel
• audio books
• school
• boys
• education
• children

Track guide

1. 01 - Pt.1 Ch.1 The Brown Family — 35:17
2. 02 - Pt.1 Ch.2 The Veast — 39:18
3. 03 - Pt.1 Ch.3 Sundry Wars and Alliances — 41:10
4. 04 - Pt.1 Ch.4 The Stage Coach — 31:26
5. 05 - Pt.1 Ch.5 Rugby and Football — 41:57
6. 06 - Pt.1 Ch.6 After the Match — 35:57
7. 07 - Pt.1 Ch.7 Settling to the Collar — 40:42
8. 08 - Pt 1 Ch 8 The War of Independence — 40:31
9. 09 - Pt.1 Ch.9 A Chapter of Accidents — 42:01
10. 10 - Pt.2 Ch.1 How the Tide Turned — 24:33
11. 11 - Pt.2 Ch.2 The New Boy — 26:23
12. 12 - Pt.2 Ch.3 Arthur Makes a Friend — 29:05
13. 13 - Pt.2 Ch.4 The Bird-Fanciers — 26:26
14. 14 - Pt.2 Ch.5 The Fight — 33:43
15. 15 - Pt.2 Ch.6 Fever in the School — 34:01
16. 16 - Pt.2 Ch.7 Harry East's Dilemmas and Deliverances — 31:00
17. 17 - Pt.2 Ch.8 Tom Brown's Last Match — 42:23
18. 18 - Pt.2 Ch.9 Finis — 15:05

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