Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game

Name: Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game
Brand: George MacDonald Fraser
SKU: 9781841593258
Price: 16.50 GBP
Availability: InStock

by George MacDonald Fraser

Title:

Author:

George MacDonald Fraser

Series (if any):

Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

972 pages

Publisher:

TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale

ISBN-13:

9781841593258

EAN:

9781841593258

Classifications:

Adventure

Weight (g):

920

Dimensions (mm):

213 x 134 x 44

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£16.50

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Description

For George MacDonald Fraser the bully Flashman was easily the most interesting character in Tom Brown's Schooldays, and imaginative speculation as to what might have happened to him after his expulsion from Rugby School for drunkenness ended in 12 volumes of memoirs in which Sir Harry Paget Flashman - self-confessed scoundrel, liar, cheat, thief, coward -'and, oh yes, a toady' - romps his way through decades of nineteenth-century history in a swashbuckling and often hilarious series of military and amorous adventures. In Flashman the youthful hero, armed with a commission in the 11th Dragoons, is shipped to India, woos and wins the beautiful Elspeth, and reluctantly takes part in the first Anglo-Afghan War, honing a remarkable talent for self-preservation.Flash for Freedom! finds him crewing on an African slave ship, hiding in a New Orleans whorehouse and fortuitously running into rising young American politician Abraham Lincoln...