- Harry Paget Flashman (Fictitious character), Fiction, Americans, Fiction, historical, general
Semi-retired scoundrel General Harry Flashman is puzzled by the dark past and present schemings of Mark Franklin, an American frontiersman who is taking London by storm.
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Classical in form, cool, effortless and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- George MacDonald Fraser
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 576
- Publisher
- Collins, Carroll & Graf Publishers, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9787215981539
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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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