The Heirs of Tom Brown - The English School Story

Informationen zum Autor Isabel Quigly was born in Spain. In addition to The Heirs of Tom Brown she wrote a novel and a book on Charlie Chaplin. She also translated many books from Italian, Spanish and French. For ten years she was the film critic for the Spectator. Klappentext An investigation into the literary! social and cultural history of the English school story. Zusammenfassung In their heyday, the English public schools inspired an astonishing effusion of novels and stories about school life, of which Tom Brown's Schooldays is perhaps still the best known, and was certainly the most influential.

Product details

• Authors: Isabel Quigly, QUIGLY ISABEL
• Assisted by: Isabe Quigly (Editor), Isabel Quigly (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2009
• EAN: 9780571251537
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25153-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, Class; Faber Finds; School; Society