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The Flashman Papers
Flash for Freedom
• George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE •
1989 •
PAPER
• 287 PAGES
In this fifth installment in the rollicking series, our self-serving, cowardly Victorian hero finds himself playing a role in the Civil War. Flashman meets up with Abraham Lincoln (who saves his neck), runs a slave plantation, cheats at cards, escapes on a slave ship and helps out in Underground Railroad. the Much of the action takes place in New Orleans.
(USS372, $16.00) |
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Flashman
• George MacDonald Fraser
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1986 •
PAPER
• 252 PAGES
Rogue, drunkard and womanizer, Fraser's anti-hero Harry Plaget Flashman was apparently involved in every significant event in late 19th-Century British imperial history. In this, the first of the series, Flashman (after being kicked out of school for public drunkenness) gets himself mixed up in the disastrous First Afghan War, notably the humiliating retreat from Kabul (where we find our hero more interested in the ladies than his hide). Naturally, Fraser's version of the last stand of the 44th Regiment at Gandamack on January 13th, 1842 features our hero. It's a rip-roaring tale, meticulously researched and painfully funny. In another of the series "Flashman and the Great Game," a character asks of Flashman (not unreasonably), "Do you not see that it is better to leave people be -- to let them alone?" Every bit as wicked, entertaining and informative as the Patrick O'Brien novels, Fraser has thus far issued eleven installments of the Flashman papers.
(CAS83, $15.00) |
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Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
• George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE •
1996 •
PAPER
• 394 PAGES
A womanizer, coward and reluctant hero, George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman finds himself at the center of extraordinary events in this on ongoing series. In this 10th installmant, Flashy is kidnapped in Cape Town (talk about relunctant) and soon with John Brown on his fateful 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry. This naturally gives Fraser plenty of opportunity to comment on the Antebellum South, racism and the American way.
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Flashman and the Dragon
• George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
The eighth entry in Fraser's popular series of 19th-century adventures starring Harry Flashman, the womanizing rogue and international troublemaker. This book, set in 1860s China, is rich in historical detail -- and comedy. Fraser helpfully includes maps of Shanghai and the Yangtse, Peking, Canton and Macau, all of which feature prominently in the text. Our reluctant hero is hoodwinked into joining the Teiping Rebellion, participates in the Seige of Nanking and ends up as a plaything of the Dowager Empress at the Summer Palace.
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Flashman and the Mountain of Light
• George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE •
1992 •
PAPER
• 394 PAGES
In this 9th installment in the rollicking, meticulously researched series, set in 1845, the sardonic Flashman is off to the Punjab for more lechery, cowardice and aggrandizement in the service of Her Majesty. The books, for all their hijinks, are full of marvelously rendered period detail. Harry reluctantly beds half the royal court, accidentally outfoxes a Maharani, and makes off with the Koh-i-nor (on display in the Tower of London). It's quite a tale.
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Flashman and the Redskins
• George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 480 PAGES
Picking up where Flashman For Freedom left off, our disreputable hero finds himself on a wagon train en route to San Francisco. In this grand detour (he hopes to escape to England), he meets Kit Carson, gets captured by Apaches and takes part in the California Gold Rush. Naturally, he's at the center of the Battle of Little Big Horn (where he may have inadvertently shot Custer). It's all very entertaining, shot through (pun intended) with period detail and meticulously researched. Fraser's impolitic use of Red Brutes and Redskins is decidedly sardonic.
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Flashman and the Tiger
• George MacDonald Fraser
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2001 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
Fraser plumbs the annals of history to produce his factual, entertaining tales of folly in the service of her Majesty's empire. This 11th installment in The Flashman Papers (purportedly retrieved and not written by George Macdonald Fraser, a nice conceit), consists of three short adventures, which find our hero cavorting with Bismarck and Emperor Franz-Josef and the future Edward VI.
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Flashman at the Charge
• George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
In this installment in the rollicking, masterfully researched series of historical novels, our disreputable hero finds himself in Crimea -- and a participant in the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade. Once again, Fraser takes the opportunity to poke holes in British legend (and vanity).
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Flashman in the Great Game
• George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
What caused the Sepoy Mutiny, a pivotal moment in the Raj? How about Harry Flashman, the reluctant, much-decorated coward, cad and womanizer at the center of George MacDonald Fraser's wildly entertaining, irreverent series of historical novels. He gets the Victorian Cross for this latest folly in the service of Her Majesty.
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Flashman on the March
• George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 378 PAGES
A scoundrel, cad and coward, George Macdonald Fraser's Flashman has done nothing but accumulate honors in his adventures in the service of the British Empire. In this 12th outing in the series, cumulatively titled The Flashman Papers, our reluctant hero finds himself at the center of General Robert Napier's Abysssinian campaign. It's another excellent opportunity to comment on the folly of the British Empire -- and, like all the books, a rollicking entertainment. It's not just the wit and fine writing that makes this series so pleasurable but also Fraser's fully realized sense of history.
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Flashman's Lady
• George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE •
1988 •
PAPER
• 330 PAGES
Another volume in the wildly entertaining, historically accurate Flashman series, this one set in Queen Ranavalona's Madagascar. After fighting pirates, fending off the Queen, chasing women and taking charge of the Malagasy army, our cowardly rogue escapes to safety with his not-so-adventurous (and obviously deluded) wife. Fraser's real-life characters include James Brooks, pirate-hunter of the South Seas.
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Royal Flash
• George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 394 PAGES
The further adventures of the insufferable, self-serving and altogether entertaining Harry Flashman. In this second installment, the young man-about-town encounters Count Otto Von Bismarck and Lola Montez. These delicious books, for all their hijinks, are meticulously researched and full of period detail.
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