A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown`s "Schooldays" has long had an influence well beyond the middle-class, public school world that it describes. The book describes Tom`s time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his departure for a wider world as a confident young man. This classic tale of a boy`s schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication