- Children's stories, American, boarding school, Catholic, Jesuit
This delightful story centers on 10-year-old Tom Playfair who is quite a handful for his well-meaning but soft-hearted aunt. Mr. Playfair, his widowed father, decides to ship his son off to St.
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- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Francis J. Finn
- First published
- 1891
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Benziger brothers, Desclée de Brouwer, Benziger
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780895556707
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Before 1865, most American Catholic Literature was either translated from French, German, or Flemish books, or reprints from English and Irish works.[5] At St. Mary's College Finn learned how to teach and discipline boys. If they promised to behave, he promised to tell them a story. He began with Oliver Twist. One afternoon while supervising a class busy writing a composition, Mr. Finn thought of how they represented to him the typical American Catholic boy. With nothing else to do, he took up pencil and paper. “Why not write about such boys as are before me?” he asked himself. In no time at all he had dashed off the first chapter of Tom Playfair. He went on to write 26 more. According to th
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