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Tom Brown's School Days at Wikisource. Tom Brown's School Days (sometimes written Tom Brown's Schooldays, also published under the titles Tom Brown at Rugby, School Days at Rugby, and Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby) [ 1][ 2] is a novel by Thomas Hughes, published in 1857. The story is set in the 1830s at Rugby School, an English public school.
After a few such schools were set up in the early 19th century by individual reformers, the London Ragged School Union was established in April 1844 to combine resources in the city, providing free education, food, clothing, lodging, and other home missionary services for poor children. They were phased out by the final decades of the 19th century.
Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers. Dav Pilkey. George Beard and Harold Hutchins, two fourth graders, use a homemade time machine to travel 65 million years into the past. They also travel to 206,784 years in the past and 30 years in the future.
OCLC. 59267481. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title refers to an observation by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes (created by Arthur Conan Doyle) in the 1892 short story "The Adventure of Silver Blaze". Haddon and The Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book ...
Boy: Tales of Childhood (1984) is an autobiography written by British writer Roald Dahl. [1] This book describes his life from early childhood until leaving school, focusing on living conditions in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, the public school system at the time, and how his childhood experiences led him to writing children's books as a career.
The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [ 1 ] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [ a ] Of this new state, the historian Simon Schama said:
978-0-451-07645-8. Rage (written as Getting It On) [ a] is a psychological thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, the first he published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was published in 1977 and was collected in the 1985 hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books. The novel describes a school shooting, and has been associated with ...
The modern, ruined Château de Lacoste. The 120 Days of Sodom is set near the end of the reign of Louis XIV. [6] Four wealthy libertines—the Duc de Blangis (representing the nobility), the Bishop of X*** (representing the clergy), the Président de Curval (representing the legal system), and Durcet (representing high finance) [7] —lock themselves in an isolated castle, the Château de ...