The Fifth Form at St. Dominic’s

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**Title** **The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's**
Cover of the First Edition (1887)
Author	Talbot Baines Reed
Illustrator	Gordon Browne
Country	England
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Religious Tract Society, London
Released	1887
Media type	Print (Hardback)
ISBN	NA

The Fifth Form at St. Dominic’s (published 1887) is the best known of the school stories of late 19th century author Talbot Baines Reed. The stories as well as the book were written for the Boy's Own Paper and published by the Religious Tract Society, with illustrations by Gordon Browne. Reed himself had no experience of a public school education; consequently, the book lacked some of the realism of other comparable books like Tom Brown's Schooldays and Eric, or, little by little. However, the book was written with great enthusiasm and it started a tradition of boarding school stories in British juvenile fiction that lasted until the end of World War II.

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