Flashman at the Charge - Softcover

Fraser, George MacDonald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452264138 ISBN 13: 9780452264137

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

Yes, that unabashed adventurer, shameless scoundrel and lustful libertine Flashman is back - racing away from danger in the greatest charge in history, and plunging into amorous action with as lascivious a line-up of fair ladies as has ever given the life to purity and virtue. You're in for a wild and uninhibited ride when you join "Flashman at the Charge."

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Review:

Praise for the Flashman series
"Hilariously funny."--The New York Times Book Review

"Great dirty fun!"--Grand Rapids Press

"The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time... Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next... Wonderful and scandalous."--Publishers Weekly

"Raises dastardliness to the level of an art... One of the most amusing and sardonic novels I have ever read!"--Omaha World

"As irreverent and picaresque as Tom Jones and always more dramatic... Flashman is a one-man demolition squad!"--Chicago Today

"Marvelously entertaining... A delight!"--Providence Journal

From the Back Cover:

“Forward the Light Brigade'”
Was there a man dismayed?

Indeed there was. As the British cavalry prepare to launch themselves against the Russian guns at Balaclava, Harry Flashman was not so much dismayed as terrified. But the Crimea was only the beginning: beyond lay the snowbound wastes of the great Russian slave-empire, torture and death from relentless enemies, headlong escapes, savage tribal hordes to the right of him, passionate and beautiful females to the left of him, and finally that almost unknown but desperate war on the roof of the world, when India was the prize, and there was nothing to stop the armed might of Imperial Russia but the wavering sabre and terrified ingenuity of old Flashy himself.

"Vintage Flashman...recommended"
FINANCIAL TIMES

"Superbly funny"
BIRMINGHAM EVENING MAIL

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0452264138
• ISBN 13: 9780452264137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288