Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game Hardback
by George MacDonald Fraser
Part of the Everyman's Library CLASSICS series
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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...
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:972 pages
- Publisher:Everyman
- Publication Date:17/12/2009
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- ISBN:9781841593258
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:972 pages
- Publisher:Everyman
- Publication Date:17/12/2009
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- ISBN:9781841593258
