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

Hardback

Main Details

Title Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game
Authors and Contributors      By (author) George MacDonald Fraser
SeriesEveryman's Library CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:972
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 42
Category/GenreHistorical adventure
Historical fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9781841593258
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 17 December 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Flashman and the Great Game takes our man into the world of Kim, as he spies for the British, dallies with a luscious maharani and - despite spectacular acts of spinelessness - not only survives the bloodbath of the Indian Mutiny but emerges with a Victoria Cross and a knighthood.Impossible to put down and some of the greatest comic writing of the last 100 years. 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...

Author Biography

George MacDonald Fraser was born in Carlisle in 1925. He fought in Burma during World War II and took up a career in journalism on his return, spending many years with the Glasgow Herald. The success of the Flashman novels enabled him to devote his time to fiction. He died in 2008.;;INTRODUCER BIOGRAPHY-;Michael Dirda is a book critic on the Washington Post.