Tom Brown's Schooldays

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

Tom Brown’s Schooldays [Tom Browns Schooldays] BrE NAmE
a novel (1857) by the English author Thomas Hughes (1822–96) about a young boy growing up at ↑Rugby School, where Hughes himself was a pupil. A real ↑headmaster of Rugby, Dr Thomas Arnold, appears as a character in the book and has a great influence on Tom, but many of Tom’s experiences are unhappy ones and he is often badly treated by a cruel older boy called Flashman.