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Flashman at the Charge

✍ Scribed by George MacDonald Fraser


Publisher
Plume;HarperCollins
Year
2013;1999
Tongue
English
Weight
204 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0006512984

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✦ Synopsis


β€œHilariously funny.”—** The New York Times Book Review**

β€œGreat dirty fun!”—** Grand Rapids Press**

β€œThe most entertaining anti-hero in a long time… Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next… Wonderful and scandalous.”—** Publishers Weekly**

The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade. Part of the Flashman series, comprising Flashman , Royal Flash , and Flash for Freedom , among others, which explores the successful though scandalous later career of the bully in Tom Brown's School Days.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Review

'If ever there was a time when I felt that watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman' PG Wodehouse 'Mr Fraser is a skilful and meticulous writer, twice as good as Buchan and twenty times better than Fleming' Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard

About the Author

The author of the famous 'Flashman Papers' and the 'Private McAuslan' stories, George MacDonald Fraser has worked on newspapers in Britain and Canada. In addition to his novels he has also written numerous films, most notably 'The Three Musketeers', 'The Four Musketeers', and the James Bond film, 'Octopussy'.


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