![]() ![]() ![]() Flashy is in at the major points of the campaign but also meets and works for the major players and takes part in the events leading up to the final battle, giving the reader a front row seat from start to the finish. Fraser pulls it off to a degree, but his wit and humour doesn’t shine through as strongly as it could, with the result that it frequently seems that Fraser is either writing a history lesson in novel form or a biography about a complete In other words, it’s not quite parodical enough to be funny all the way through.Īdmittedly, the series was written not only as an entertainment but also as a history lesson, and in this it performs the task admirably. It’s clear that we are meant to be horrified, amused and perhaps also secretly delighted by turns at Flashy’s blackguardly behaviour. ![]() I must say, however, that this, the first in the series doesn’t quite work for me. If you can take it at face value as a portrayal (one hopes it is a somewhat exaggerated portrayal) of colonial, early Victorian English upper class, then it works admirably as an entertaining historical adventure series. This list is not in the order of Flashman's life. ![]() Beware! Fraser makes no concessions to the sensibilities of the modern age and if you are offended by some pretty appaling political incorrectness, you may not want to read the series. Sir Harry Paget Flashman is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser (19252008), but based on the character 'Flashman' in Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes (18221896). ![]()
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