Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game: Introduction by Michael Dirda (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) - Hardcover

Fraser, George MacDonald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307592685 ISBN 13: 9780307592682

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Three of George MacDonald Fraser's incomparable and hilarious novels featuring the lovable rogue, soldier, cheat, and coward: Harry Paget Flashman.

Praised by everyone from John Updike to Jane Smiley, Fraser was an acknowledged master of comedy and satire, an unrivaled storyteller, whose craft was matched only by his impeccable historical research. And his greatest creation was, of course, Flashman. The novels collected here find our hero in the midst of his usual swashbuckling adventures of derring-do: fleeing adversaries in the First Anglo-Afghan War; meeting and nearly deceiving a young Abraham Lincoln in America; alternately impersonating a native Indian cavalry recruit and wooing women in India; and managing, whatever the circumstances, to keep his hero's reputation unsullied.

A must-have treat for the legions of dedicated Flashman fans, and a delightful introduction for those lucky enough to be encountering him for the first time.

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Review:

"A novelistic gallop through history and imagination. . . . Fraser can easily juggle Conan Doyle and Holmes, Fleming and Bond, Wodehouse and Wooster, and Chandler and Marlowe."
--Vanity Fair

Book 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0307592685
• ISBN 13: 9780307592682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 912