- Abyssinian Expedition, 1867-1868, British, British in fiction, Ethiopia in fiction
Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V. C. , returns to play his (reluctant) part in the Abyssinian War of 1868 inthe long-awaited twelfth installment of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- George MacDonald Fraser
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, Windsor/Paragon
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780007557448
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- Abyssinian Expedition, 1867-1868
- British
- British in fiction
- Ethiopia in fiction
- Fiction
- Harry Paget Flashman (Fictitious character)
- Historical Fiction
- Political prisoners
- Political prisoners in fiction
- Soldiers
- Abyssinian Expedition (1867-1868) fast (OCoLC)fst00794930
- Flashman, harry paget (fictitious character), fiction
George MacDonald Fraser(2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman. Over the course of his career he wrote eleven novels and one short-story collection in the Flashman series of novels, as well as non-fiction, short stories, novels and screenplays—including those for the James Bond film Octopussy and an adaptation of his own novel Royal Flash.
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