Thomas Hughes 
Alfred the Great (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

Alfred the Great (849-899), King of Wessex, defended his realm against the Vikings and so became “King of the Anglo-Saxons.” The author of
Tom Brown’s School Days brings a novelist’s eye to this 1871 biography of the king he considered a model of what a ruler should be, in contrast to conquerors like Caesar or Napoleon.

 

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Thomas Hughes (1822–1896) was an English lawyer and author whose most-famous book,
Tom Brown’s School Days, has become a classic work of young adult literature (Hughes based the character of Tom on his brother George). Hughes also wrote a number of other works, including biographies of David Livingstone and Alfred the Great.