Tom Brown (character) Harry Flashman, and invites him to a cricket game as an act of friendship. Flashman describes Tom's adult form as ""...a giant of a man...like some boxer..."" Flashman made some passing references to Brown in earlier novels, referring to him as "East's odious friend" in "Flashman at the Charge" and during Flashman's recollection of his expulsion in "Flashman". Tom Brown (character) Tom Brown is a fictional character created by author Thomas Hughes in his work "Tom Brown's School Days" (1857) which is set at a real English public school — Rugby School for Boys — in the 1830s when Hughes
Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, or, The Naval Terror of the Seas, is Volume 18 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. The story was written in 1915, and World War I, also known as The Great War, was already in progress. As the story opens, Tom is explaining his newest invention to his friend, Ned Newton. Just as Tom is in the middle of explaining the problems he is having, a fire erupts in one of the sheds, where explosives are stored. After the fire has been