Author(s): Thomas Hughes,Marie Coghill
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 168
Publisher: Macmillan Education
Language:
Date Published: 1982-12-03
Dimensions: 121 x 187 x 10mm
Publication City/Country: Oxford, United Kingdom
Edition: Abridged edition
Illustrations: Ill.

One of the classics of English children's literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, this novel's steady popularity has given it an influence well beyond the upper middle-class world that it describes. It tells a story central to an understanding of Victorian life, but its freshness helps to distinguish it from the narrow schoolboy adventures that it later inspired. The book includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders.