George MacDonald Fraser
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman."– P.G. Wodehouse
Fraser revives Flashman, a caddish bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and relates Flashman’s adventures after he is expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Flashy enlists in the Eleventh Light Dragoons and is promptly sent to...
Fraser revives Flashman, a caddish bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and relates Flashman’s adventures after he is expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Flashy enlists in the Eleventh Light Dragoons and is promptly sent to...
2) Royal Flash
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Horse riding, sword fighting, fistfights, escapes, chases... If anyone is looking for a successor to James Bond, Flashy is the one."—The New York Times
In Volume II of the Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the dastardly Otto Von Bismarck in a battle of wits which will decide the destiny of a continent. In this volume of The Flashman Papers, Flashman, the arch-cad and toady, matches his...
In Volume II of the Flashman Papers, Flashman tangles with femme fatale Lola Montez and the dastardly Otto Von Bismarck in a battle of wits which will decide the destiny of a continent. In this volume of The Flashman Papers, Flashman, the arch-cad and toady, matches his...
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Captain John Rackham, called Calico Jack, a pirate who marauded the Caribbean seas, is wanted by the government on counts of piracy. He makes a surprise visit to the governor's residence and asks for pardon for his men. A deal is brokered, but the governor does not reveal that Jack,s beloved fiancee has become betrothed to the governor himself. Jack discovers he has been deceived and publicly threatens the governor, then locks swords with a notorious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
"The eighth volume of the old soldier's memoirs, in which Harry Flashman, that jewel in the crown of Queen Victoria's Empire who turned out to be the most glorious and Flashy fake, finds himself in China, smack in the middle of the Taiping Rebellion."
13) Flashman's lady
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
"ADVENTURE: Harry must defend his cad's honor when his wife is abducted from Singapore." --
15) The pyrates
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Dashing young Captain Avery is entrusted with the mission of transporting the fabulous Madagascar Crown from London, through treacherous waters infested with dastardly pirates, to Madagascar.
Author
Series
Flashman papers ; 2
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
Flashman becomes embroiled in advanced diplomacy.