Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hughes

by Thomas Hughes, Delphi Classics (Editor)

Best known for his beloved children’s classic ‘Tom Brown’s School Days’, Thomas Hughes was a British jurist, reformer and novelist. He attended Rugby School in the 1830’s and his admiration of the headmaster Thomas Arnold and for games and boyish antics are admirably captured in his famous novel. It enjoyed a phenomenal success, running into nearly 50 editions by 1890. ‘Tom Brown’s School Days’ was responsible for bringing the school story genre to much wider attention, inspiring the fictional schools of Billy Bunter’s Greyfriars, Mr Chips’ Brookfield, the girls boarding school of St. Trinian’s and J. K. Rowling’s Hogwarts. This comprehensive eBook presents Hughes’ complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hughes’ life and works
* Concise introductions to major texts
* All the novels, with individual contents tables
* The Tom Brown books are fully illustrated with their original artwork
* Features rare non-fiction works appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including Hughes’ seminal study of David Livingstone
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare biographies available in no other collection
* Includes Hughes’ autobiography, digitised here for the first time
* Features a bonus biography – discover Hughes’ literary life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres



The Fiction
Tom Brown’s School Days (1857)
The Scouring of The White Horse (1859)
Tom Brown at Oxford (1859)

The Non-Fiction
Religio Laici (1861)
Alfred the Great (1870)
Memoir of a Brother (1873)
True Manliness (1880)
David Livingstone (1889)
Vacation Rambles (1895)

The Autobiography
Early Memories for the Children (1899)

The Biography
Thomas Hughes (1901) by John Llewelyn Davies

2881 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 13, 2022

About the author

Librarian note: There is more than one author by this name on Goodreads.

Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).