TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS by Thomas Hughes - full unabridged audiobook - inspiration for FLASHMAN

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Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (1822-1896). This is the book that inspired the hugely popular Flashman Papers. Tom Brown's principal enemy at Rugby is the bully Flashman. The character of Flashman was adopted by the British writer George MacDonald Fraser as the narrator and hero (or anti-hero) of his popular series of "Flashman" historical novels. In the Flashman novel Flashman in the Great Game, the main character reads Tom Brown's School Days. The novel's real popularity causes the fictional Flashman some fictional social troubles. The Flashman novels also include some other characters from the novel, for example: George Speedicut and Tom Brown himself (in the book Flashman's Lady). Flashman also encounters the character of "Scud" East twice, first in Flashman at the Charge, when both he and East are prisoners of war during the Crimean War, and again in Flashman in the Great Game at the Siege of Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. East is mortally wounded during the massacre and dies in Flashman's arms. However, in Tom Brown in Oxford, "Scud" East survived India (after suffering two bullet wounds, a broken arm and a gash in his side) and emigrates to New Zealand (see chapters XXI "The Intercepted Letter-Bag" and XLVIII "The Wedding-Day"). 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) Ch.1 The Brown Family -- 00:35:17 Pt.1 Ch.2 The Veast -- 00:39:18 Pt.1 Ch.3 Sundry Wars and Alliances -- 00:41:10 Pt.1 Ch.4 The Stage Coach -- 00:31:26 Pt.1 Ch.5 Rugby and Football -- 00:41:57 Pt.1 Ch.6 After the Match -- 00:35:57 Pt.1 Ch.7 Settling to the Collar -- 00:40:42 Pt 1 Ch 8 The War of Independence -- 00:40:31 Pt.1 Ch.9 A Chapter of Accidents -- 00:42:00 Pt.2 Ch.1 How the Tide Turned -- 00:24:32 Pt.2 Ch.2 The New Boy -- 00:26:23 Pt.2 Ch.3 Arthur Makes a Friend -- 00:29:05 Pt.2 Ch.4 The Bird-Fanciers -- 00:26:26 Pt.2 Ch.5 The Fight -- 00:33:42 Pt.2 Ch.6 Fever in the School -- 00:34:01 Pt.2 Ch.7 Harry East's Dilemmas and Deliverances -- 00:31:00 Pt.2 Ch.8 Tom Brown's Last Match -- 00:42:22 Pt.2 Ch.9 Finis -- 00:15:04 Visit this site for a full list of the quotes regarding Flashman that appear in Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes. The references are by chapter and verse - http://flashman.unixcert.net/rugbycv.htm Below is a the quote about Flashman Getting expelled. 9:28 They had done with Flashman in one sense, for he never laid a finger on either of them again; but whatever harm a spiteful heart and venomous tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some of it is sure to stick; and so it was with the fifth form and the bigger boys in general, with whom he associated more or less,and they not at all. Flashman managed to get Tom and East into disfavour, which did not wear off for some time after the author of it had disappeared from the School world. This event, much prayed for by the small fry in general, took place a few months after the above encounter. One fine summer evening Flashman had been regaling himself on gin-punch, at Brownsover; and, having exceeded his usual limits, started home uproarious. He fell in with a friend or two coming back from bathing, proposed a glass of beer, to which they assented, the weather being hot, and they thirsty souls, and unaware of the quantity of drink which Flashman had already on board. The short result was, that Flashey became beastly drunk; they tried to get him along, but couldn't; so they chartered a hurdle and two men to carry him. One of the masters came upon them, and they naturally enough fled. The flight of the rest raised the master's suspicions, and the good angel of the fags incited them to examine the freight, and, after examination, to convoy the hurdle himself up to the School-house; and the Doctor, who has long has his eye on Flashman, arranged for his withdrawal next morning.