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	Review - Black Ajax
		No, this isn’t a new Flashman novel but it’s the next best thing: Flashman’s father, Captain Buckley Flashman, is a supporting character in this startlingly vivid "Regency" novel, and nearly steals the show from the protagonist (whom we’ll get to in a moment!).
		Flashman fans will be delighted to know that "Mad Buck" has some choice details to add to the Flashman saga - including the answer to the great mystery of how he happened to marry the high-born Lady Alicia Paget.
		Indeed, Flashman devotees will readily see where Colonel Sir Harry Flashman inherited many of his - er - talents.
	www.peers.org /revajax.html (377 words)

	Meskel Square: Flashman in Ethiopia
		George MacDonald Fraser's latest novel Flashman on the March has its "hero" Sir Harry Flashman, V.C. marauding through nineteenth century Ethiopia.
		George MacDonald Fraser's latest novel Flashman on the March has its "hero" Sir Harry Flashman, V.C. marauding through nineteenth century Ethiopia.
		Flashman's undeserved reputation for heroism renders him the British Army's candidate of choice when it comes to skulking behind enemy lines in Ali Baba attire.
	www.meskelsquare.com /archives/2005/03/flashman_in_eth.html (377 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Flashman's Lady (Flashman)
		On to the last section of the novel, and Harry Flashman and his wife are captive in Madagascar.
		Flashman of Flashman's Lady is a great place to begin the Flashman tour of the British Army during the 19th Century, the roll on the floor laughter of Frazer's characterization, the relatively accurate history that goes with this historical fiction.
		In FLASHMAN'S LADY, the reader is apprised of the private war against the pirates of the East Indies by the eccentric English imperialist, James Brooke, and the reign of terror perpetuated by that female Caligula of the period, Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452264898?v=glance (2010 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Flashman and the Mountain of Light
		The first novel, "Flashman", remains my favorite because the young character flees from every battle, and it is only through luck and chicanery that he rises to his fame.
		Flashman is drawn into behind-the-scenes subterfuge that take him from the Sikh royal court to the middle of bloody battlefields.
		This time, Flashman is called into service just as the 80,000-strong Sikh army, the Khalsa, appears ready to sweep down on the English and drive them out once and for all.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0452267854 (638 words)

	Review - Flashman and the Tiger
		Flashman and the Tiger is not a new novel but a collection of three novellas – all featuring an elderly but still formidable Colonel Sir Harry Flashman.
		The second novella in Flashman and the Tiger – perhaps the best – is The Tranby Croft Scandal which is both a tremendously entertaining "read" and an excellent analysis of one of the most puzzling mysteries in the history of British jurisprudence.
		If you’re not familiar with the Flashman novels (we trust you had a pleasant voyage from Alpha Centauri?), then all we can say is if you love 19
	www.peers.org /revfltig.html (760 words)

	The Observer Review Observer review: Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser
		Each novel forms an instalment of Flashman's posthumously published 'memoirs' - The Flashman Papers - in which he is seamlessly woven into some of the pivotal episodes from the Victorian era.
		He's the author of a number of historical novels, but it's snobbish, fornicating Flashman who remains his most enduring success.
		The joke the reader is invited to share is that, far from the decorated hero he's publicly perceived to be, Flashman cheerfully reveals himself to be a craven lecher, a shameless rogue whose reputation for bravery is thoroughly undeserved.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1456037,00.html (718 words)

	Flashman and the Tiger review
		Flashman and the Tiger is now the title of another volume of The Flashman Papers, and the book as published on these shores consists of three novelettes.
		And Harry Turtledove's "The Last Word" is reminiscent of John Overgard's The Divide, a post-alternate-World War II novel that far eclipses SS-GB and Fatherland.
		I've developed a long memory for Flashman's antiheroism, and even though it had been several years since my last volume I felt as though I was reading the same thing over again.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /roygoodman/tiger.html (718 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Flashman and the Tiger: And Other Extracts from the Flashman Papers (The Flashman Papers)
		The first new Flashman novel since Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, this is the long-awaited new instalment of the Flashman Papers.
		GMF is a wonderful writer and the early Flashman novels are as good today as the first time I read them.
		Flashman devotees will be heartened to hear that their hero has lost none of his bluster, wit and fire, but these later memoirs do hint at the possible twinges of age.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006513670 (718 words)

	Twelve Fingers - Jô Soares
		Twelve Fingers is a Flashman-like (see our review) romp, where a fictional character encounters and affects real-life history.
		Soares stuffs as much as he can into his novel, and so there is a lot of action and adventure on a per page basis.
		Beside the assassination attempts there are other events, encounters, and adventures in the novel.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/brazil/soaresj2.htm (1159 words)

	Damn Your Eyes! MetaFilter
		Fraser did soften Flashy dramatically, but the big change is from _Flashman_, the first novel, where Harry is a utterly unlikable shit, to all the other novels, where he's still a poltroon, but what you've essentially got is a modern, cynical sensibility commenting hilariously on all those stiff-upper-lip Victorian officers and gentlemen.
		Flashman's account of the battle of Balaclava in "Flashman at the Charge" -- at which he manages to see action with Campbell's 93rd Highlanders, Scarlett's Heavy Brigade and the famous Light Brigade, all in a single day, is the most lucid, riveting -- and hilarious -- battlefield narrative that I've ever read.
		Damn your eyes, Harry Paget Flashman lived through and thrived in spite of his involvement in almost all of the sticky and and unpleasant incidents involving agents of the British Empire from the late 1830s to the beginning of the last century.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/27518 (1159 words)

	BookLinker
		Flashman On the March is the latest Flashman novel penned by George MacDonald Fraser.
		Flashman, though bluff and bold-faced in appearance, is a caddish, bullying, womanizing coward who manages, through luck, knavish skill and consummate acting, to find himself hailed as a Victorian hero in the first book.
		The Closers is Michael Connelly's 11th mystery featuring Harry Bosch and he delves into it with all the verve and strength of the previous novels, building a deepening mystery that slowly unfolds and develops.
	www.booklinker.blogspot.com (1159 words)

	Flashman and the Tiger review
		Flashman and the Tiger is now the title of another volume of The Flashman Papers, and the book as published on these shores consists of three novelettes.
		And Harry Turtledove's "The Last Word" is reminiscent of John Overgard's The Divide, a post-alternate-World War II novel that far eclipses SS-GB and Fatherland.
		Flashman meets many eminent Victorian characters in the course of his misadventures.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /roygoodman/tiger.html (564 words)

	Damn Your Eyes! MetaFilter
		Fraser did soften Flashy dramatically, but the big change is from _Flashman_, the first novel, where Harry is a utterly unlikable shit, to all the other novels, where he's still a poltroon, but what you've essentially got is a modern, cynical sensibility commenting hilariously on all those stiff-upper-lip Victorian officers and gentlemen.
		August 7, 2003 12:15 AM Damn your eyes, Harry Paget Flashman lived through and thrived in spite of his involvement in almost all of the sticky and and unpleasant incidents involving agents of the British Empire from the late 1830s to the beginning of the last century.
		Flashman's account of the battle of Balaclava in "Flashman at the Charge" -- at which he manages to see action with Campbell's 93rd Highlanders, Scarlett's Heavy Brigade and the famous Light Brigade, all in a single day, is the most lucid, riveting -- and hilarious -- battlefield narrative that I've ever read.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/27518 (1981 words)

	Flashman Chronology 1876 - 1915
		This novel includes the aged General Flashman as a central character, and Fraser has included some items of the then-unpublished Flashman Papers in the dialogue.
		To summarize: Flashman was in London during the time of Lilly Langtry's initial burst of fame, as was Wilde, and this is entirely consistent with Flashman's various remarks about her-- including his claim of involvement prior to Prince Edward's.
		Flashman states that he was intimately acquainted with Langtry before the Prince of Wales was, so we can place Flashman's involvement between August 3, 1876 (the day after he appears in Deadwood) and January 1879, when Flashman is caught up in the Zulu Uprising.
	www.pangloss.ca /flashman/Chronology2.html (4904 words)

	Flash for Freedom! (Flashman) (George MacDonald Fraser)
		Flashman encounters a soon-to-be retiring Congressman Lincoln a couple of times during the course of the novel, and these scenes should be fun for fans of Abe.
		This is the third Flashman book I've read, and it's almost as good as the first book in the series ("Flashman"), which I liked quite a lot, and it's considerably better than "Royal Flash," the second book in the series.
		Flashman is shown at his vile best in this installment of his saga.
	www.truefresco.com /bookshop/us/product/0452260892.htm (710 words)

	Timeline 1800-1810
		The incident is the backdrop for George MacDonald Fraser’s novel "Flashman and the Angel of the Lord."
		The climactic battle in Patrick O’Brian’s novel “Master and Commander” is based on the Speedy’s fight with El Gamo.
		She wrote some 80 novels that included “Consuelo” (1842) and “La Comtesse de Rudolstadt” (1843).
	www.timelines.ws /1800_1810.HTML (14598 words)

	Flashman - sffworld.com
		I'm currently reading, The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser, a series of historical fiction novels about Victorian military officer, Harry Paget Flashman, a cad and a lech who becomes embroiled in ribald adventures all over the far-flung regions of the 19th Century British Empire.
		I just finished the first book in the series, Flashman, which details his involvement in the First Anglo-Afghan War and the 1842 Retreat from Kabul.
		I heartily recommend these to folks who would like an historical novel with a different kind of protagonist.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=12115 (171 words)

	Biblio: BLACK AJAX by Fraser, George MacDonald: Details
		Although not officially part of the Flashman Papers - and set earlier in time during Regency England - Captain 'Mad Buck' Flashman, father of Harry Flashman, plays a large role in this wonderful novel.
		The highly acclaimed novel based on thrue story of the real-life bare-knuckle boxer Tom Molineaux, a Virginia slave who fought his way to freedom and to celebrity in England in the early 1880's.
		A former American slave from Virginia, Tom Molineaux, is a successful boxer in England at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/1466684.html (171 words)

	James Brooke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brooke is also featured in Flashman's Lady, the 6th book in George MacDonald Fraser's meticulously researched Flashman novels and in Sandokan: The Pirates of Malaysia, (I pirati della Malesia) the second novel in Emilio Salgari's Sandokan series.
		A fictionalised account of James Brooke's exploits in Sarawak is given in C. Godshalk's novel Kalimantaan.
		Brooke became the centre of controversy in 1851 when accusations of misconduct against him led to the appointment of a royal commission in Singapore.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Brooke (417 words)

	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Tom Brown's Schooldays
		Brown, Michael Hordern as Wilkes, Neil North as Diggs, John Charesworth as East, Glyn Dearman as Arthur and John Forrest as Flashman.
		Davies' Tom is a sensitive but resilient young man who overcomes the villainy of the school's awful bully, the swaggering lout Flashman.
		Thomas Hughes's popular novel, based on incidents at the school he had attended while Matthew Arnold was master of the school is the source of this fine adaptation.
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=5050 (417 words)

	Lycos - Offers for 'tom browns schooldays', price comparison, special offers, shopping
		This novel describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his growing maturity as a young man..
		An adaptation of the novel that follows the trials and tribulations of a young schoolboy, Tom Brown, who is sent to Rugby public school.
		Follows the plight of Tom Brown as he joins Rugby.
	shopping.lycos.co.uk /search/tom_browns_schooldays.html (199 words)

	George MacDonald Fraser: Black Ajax
		George MacDonald Fraser is best known for his excellent Flashman series, set in Victorian times; this book is also a historical novel but deals with the slightly earlier Regency period (Flashman's father, Buckley, figures in it).
		This he eventually did, on two occasions, but both times he lost; Fraser implies that he could have won were it not for his irresistible addiction to drink and sex.
		The actual contests are vividly described and sound truly horrific; it's easy to agree with Fraser's comment, in an epilogue, that no modern boxer would be willing or able to take part in a battle of that kind.
	www.accampbell.uklinux.net /bookreviews/r/fraser-1.html (363 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Black Ajax
		MacDonald Fraser fully deploys his ability to create the very feel of another age in the way he has done humorously in the Flashman novels and seriously in "Mr.American".
		I had thought that George MacDonald Fraser was going stale and that the last books in the Flashman series had been dull and one-dimensional.
		As in all GM Fraser novels all the characters are realistic and true to the time period.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006499813 (1139 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Black Ajax
		Taking a break from his delightful series about the Victorian scoundrel Harry Flashman, Fraser gives us a superb novel about Tom Molineaux, a freed slave from Virginia who was a boxing sensation in the early days of the sport in Regency England.
		This historical novel is based on the true story of Tom Molineaux, a former slave who won his freedom in a boxing match, then traveled to England, refined his skills, and almost became the first black champ.
		Molineaux is a horribly misunderstood and manipulated character and the story of his rise and fall is both touching and poignant whilst remaining humourous, gripping and brutal.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0753103443 (1139 words)

	The Prisoner of Zenda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1970 Flashman book Royal Flash, by George MacDonald Fraser, is a pastiche of The Prisoner of Zenda which purports to explain the real story behind the novel.
		The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, first published in 1894.
		The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc., a 1996 made-for-television version, is set in the modern-day United States and revolves around a high school age boy who is the heir to a large corporation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Zenda (1455 words)

	Flashman Papers Volume 3. Flash for Freedom
		Alice Randall, the author of a novel satirising Gone With the Wind, was found by a Federal court in Atlanta to have engaged in "unabated piracy".
		The Wind Done Gone: A Novel by Alice Randall.
		A satire of Gone with the Wind, a parody just as parts of the Flashman papers are.
	www.harryflashman.org /vol3.htm (1455 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Black Ajax
		Taking a break from his delightful series about the Victorian scoundrel Harry Flashman, Fraser gives us a superb novel about Tom Molineaux, a freed slave from Virginia who was a boxing sensation in the early days of the sport in Regency England.
		This historical novel is based on the true story of Tom Molineaux, a former slave who won his freedom in a boxing match, then traveled to England, refined his skills, and almost became the first black champ.
		The main one is that Tom Molineaux, who undoubtedly was a complex, fascinating character, comes across as a stereotype here: a hulk with not many brains but a lot of sex drive.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0002255855 (1074 words)

	Tom Brown's schooldays (2-disc) (Import) - prisjämförelse
		An altercation with Sir Richard Flashman, whose son is the resident bully, ensures that Tom is in for a rough ride...
		This classic BBC adaptation of Thomas Hughes' novel is set amongst the class rooms, playing fields and dormitories of Rugby school.
		Tom (Anthony Murphy) is, initially, overjoyed to find out that he has a place at the prestigious Rugby school.
	www.dvdpris.com /105671 (1074 words)

	Buy Tom Browns Schooldays New ed - UK Product Reviews Happy Online
		Shop Description: This novel describes Toms time at Rugby School from his first football match: through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman: to his growing maturity as a young man.
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