· Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser. Yet another book in the Flashman series. (See also: Flashman, Royal Flash, Flash for Freedom, Flashman at the Charge, Flashman and the Great Game, Flashman's Lady, Flashman and the Redskins, Flashman and the Dragon, and the original source material Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes.)Author: Joel Swagman. 13 rows · Flashman falls in with a group of travellers but he discovers them to be scalp-hunters, when Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. A mission to rescue British citizens held hostage in Abyssinia by a “mad cannibal” king tests the battle-scarred mettle of Fraser’s redoubtable antihero. In “Flashy’s” 12th adventure (following Flashman and the Tiger, ), the often-decorated, often-reviled Victorian soldier of fortune—the preening cad of Tom Brown’s School Days, grown older—finds trouble in Trieste, after dallying with an Austrian admiral’s .
March sees us again with Flashy shanghaied into a British military campaign in Abyssinia (author George MacDonald Fraser makes a thought-provoking contrast to the then-current Iraq War in his foreword) and fleeing and fornicating his way to a happy ending, all the while commenting on the various scenarios and characters in his inimitable way. Buy a cheap copy of Flashman on the March book by George MacDonald Fraser. It's and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero, is back Fleeing a chain of vengeful pursuers that includes Free shipping over $ George MacDonald Fraser's literary creation, Harry Flashman, is, in fact, not Fraser's creation at all. The character appears briefly in Tom Hughes' novel, Tom Brown's Schooldays, as a school bully who gets expelled from Rugby for drunkenness. From this brief description Fraser has fashioned a character who managed to get himself involved.
Flashman on the March. by George MacDonald Fraser. HarperCollins £, pp Appropriating another writer's creation and not only making him your own, but also turning him into one of the most. pp (paperback) ISBN. OCLC. Preceded by. Flashman and the Tiger. Flashman on the March is a novel by George MacDonald Fraser. It is the twelfth and last Flashman novel. A mission to rescue British citizens held hostage in Abyssinia by a “mad cannibal” king tests the battle-scarred mettle of Fraser’s redoubtable antihero. In “Flashy’s” 12th adventure (following Flashman and the Tiger, ), the often-decorated, often-reviled Victorian soldier of fortune—the preening cad of Tom Brown’s School Days, grown older—finds trouble in Trieste, after dallying with an Austrian admiral’s nubile niece.
0コメント