Antique Book Riverside Literature Series Edition: 1895 (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)

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Riverside Literature Series Numbers Tom Brown's School Days
by An Old Boy (Thomas Hughes)

Publication date 1895 Publisher Houghton, Mifflin … Read more Riverside Literature Series Numbers Tom Brown's School Days
by An Old Boy (Thomas Hughes)

Publication date 1895 Publisher Houghton, Mifflin & Company

The Riverside Literature Series was a mid‑20th‑century collection of classic works selected for public schools and libraries, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company. It aimed to provide accessible, high‑quality literature for young readers, often with introductions and study guides en.wikisource.org.
In this series, Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes was included in a 1906 edition published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Archive+1. The Riverside version is a reprint of the 1895 edition, which itself was based on the 1857 original published by Macmillan under the title Tom Brown's School Days (also known as Tom Brown at Rugby or School Days at Rugby) Wikipedia+1.
About the Riverside Edition
Title: Tom Brown's School Days
Author: Thomas Hughes (pseudonym “by an Old Boy”)
Original publication: 1857 (Macmillan, Cambridge)
Riverside Literature Series edition: 1895 (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.)
Series purpose: Educational, school‑bound reading material

About the Book
Tom Brown's School Days is a semi‑autobiographical school story set in the 1830s at Rugby School, drawing heavily on Hughes’s own experiences. It follows the adventures of Tom Brown, a spirited and athletic boy, and is considered a foundational work in the British school novel genre . See less