{"product_id":"heirs-of-tom-brown","title":"Heirs of Tom Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn their heyday, the English public schools inspired an astonishing effusion of novels and stories about school life, of which \u003cb\u003eTom Brown's Schooldays\u003c\/b\u003e is perhaps still the best known, and was certainly the most influential. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContinually counterpointing school life as it really was with its fictional image, Isabel Quigly discusses her chosen stories in relation to those themes which recur in the genre: the cult of games, the love story, the boarding school as a training ground for the Empire, schoolboy heroics and an extraordinary preoccupation with death. Her range is wide: from classics like \u003cb\u003eStalky \u0026amp; Co\u003c\/b\u003e, Anstey's \u003cb\u003eVice Versa\u003c\/b\u003e, and P. G. Wodehouse's school stories, to the schoolgirl tales of Angela Brazil: from nostalgic and snobbish accounts of Eton to Alec Waugh's daring and precocious novel, \u003cb\u003eThe Loom of Youth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Heirs of Tom Brown \u003c\/b\u003eis an entertaining and original investigation into the literary, social and cultural history of the English school story. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An excellent guide to this curious but interesting chapter in social and literary history' John Rae, \u003ci\u003eListener\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224093249880,"sku":"9780571251537","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571251537.jpg?v=1777203936","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/heirs-of-tom-brown","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}