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An-yat-heh, an undercover agent of Harry Smith Parkes (Flashman and the Dragon). Aphrodite, one of Miss Susie's "gels" (Flashman and the Redskins). Cassy, an escaped slave who accompanied Flashman up the Mississippi (Flash for Freedom!). Caprice, a French intelligence agent (Flashman and the Tiger) Lady Geraldine (Flashman and the Dragon ...
The Flashman Papers is a series of novels and short stories written by George MacDonald Fraser, the first of which was published in 1969. The books centre on the exploits of the fictional protagonist Harry Flashman. He is a cowardly British soldier, rake and cad who is placed in a series of real historical incidents between 1839 and 1894. While ...
The book begins with a fictional note explaining that the Flashman Papers were discovered in 1965 during a sale of household furniture in Ashby, Leicestershire. The papers are attributed to Harry Paget Flashman, the bully featured in Thomas Hughes's novel, who becomes a well-known Victorian military hero (in Fraser's fictional England). The ...
Harry Paget Flashman - The hero or anti-hero. Jack Speedicut - An old school friend of Harry's, who also appears as a supporting character in Tom Brown's Schooldays. Uliba-Wark - The half-sister of Queen Masteeat. Although initially an ally and lover to Flashman, she vows revenge on him after he throws her over a waterfall.
Kingsley Amis was a fan of the Flashman novels and always regarded this book as the best in the series. [1] In The Boston Phoenix, reviewer Michael Gee noted that "The inevitability of the destruction of the Indian tribes is an unlikely topic for a comic novel. Fraser and his rascally 19th-century stand-in are to be commended for making the ...
Flashman or Flash Man may refer to: Harry Flashman, a character in the 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes The Flashman Papers, a series of novels by George MacDonald Fraser based on the Hughes character Flashman, a 1969 novel by Fraser and the first of the Flashman Papers series; Flashman, a 1967 Italian film
Flashman at the Charge is a 1973 novel by George MacDonald Fraser. It is the fourth of the Flashman novels. Playboy magazine serialised Flashman at the Charge in 1973 in their April, May and June issues. The serialisation is unabridged, including most of the notes and appendixes, and features a few illustrations, collages from various paintings ...
Flashman's Lady begins with Flashman's encounter with Tom Brown, a former acquaintance from Rugby School, and progresses through cricket, battling pirates with James Brooke in Borneo, and enslavement in Madagascar under Queen Ranavalona I, detailing his life from 1842 to 1845. This book is unique among the Flashman series for containing ...