Flashman Papers Series by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman Papers #1
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George MacDonald Fraser
For starters, Harry Flashman is expelled from school as a drunken bully. After seducing his father's mistress, he begins a secret life that leads from the boudoirs and bordellos of Victorian England to the erotic frontiers of her exotic Empire. Along the way he lies, cheats, steals, fights fixed duels, betrays his country and proves a coward on the battlefield. "The refreshingly funny and ribald adventure story told by a rogue who is a cross between Byron's Don Juan and Fielding's Tom Jones." (Best Sellers)
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Flashman Papers #2
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George MacDonald Fraser
In the middle of Europe's Revolutions of 1848, England's No. 1 scoundrel is using all his reserves of deceit, low cunning and treachery to stay one jump ahead of death. As Harry Flashman plays for his life against the unholy alliance of Count Otto von Bismarck and Lola Montez, he tries to thwart an international double-cross that could change the destiny of a continent. "Irresistible entertainment...rollicking adventure...the most engaging rogue you are likely to meet....Flashman tells his story with the sexual avidity of a Frank Harris and the range span of a Portnoy." (San Francisco Examiner) ROYAL FLASH is second in the series, following FLASHMAN, the introductory volume.
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Flashman Papers #3
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George MacDonald Fraser
A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume III of the Flashman Papers . When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future - would it lie in the House of Commons or the West African slave trade? Was there, for that matter, very much difference? Once again Flashman's charm, cowardice, treachery, lechery and fleetness of foot see the lovable rogue triumph by the skin of his chattering teeth.
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Flashman Papers #4
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George MacDonald Fraser
Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., returns to play his (reluctant) part in the charge of the Light Brigade in the fourth volume of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers . As the British cavalry prepared to launch themselves against the Russian guns at Balaclava, Harry Flashman was petrified. But the Crimea was only the beginning: beyond lay the snowbound wastes of the great Russian slave empire, torture and death, headlong escapes from relentless enemies, savage tribal hordes to the right of him, passionate females to the left of him! And finally that unknown but desperate war on the roof of the world, when India was the prize, and there was nothing to stop the armed might of Imperial Russia but the wavering sabre and terrified ingenuity of old Flashy himself.
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Flashman Papers #5
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George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman in the Great Game begins with Flashman at Balmoral as a guest of Queen Victoria . Here he meets with Lord Palmerston , who recruits him to go to Jhansi in India and investigate rumors of an upcoming rebellion among the Sepoy s. Flashman skulks through India in various disguises, narrowly avoiding death several times and witnessing firsthand the carnage of the Sepoy Mutiny . Flashman in the Great Game covers the years 1856 to 1858. It also contains a number of notes by Fraser, in the guise of editor, giving additional historical information on the events described. Plot summary Flashman not only encounters Lord Palmerston at Balmoral, but also his old nemesis Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev . He escapes assassination narrowly and journeys to Jhansi in India, where he meets Rani Lakshmi Bai , the beautiful queen. He listens to her grievances against the British Raj and attempts to seduce her. Whether or not he is successful is unclear, but immediately afterwards Flashman is nearly garrote d by Thuggee s. In disguise as Makarram Khan, a Hasanzai of the Black Mountain, he takes refuge in the native cavalry at Meerut . Unfortunately, Meerut is where the Sepoy Mutiny begins.
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Flashman Papers #6
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George MacDonald Fraser
Flashy, that lustful libertine, takes a round-the-world adventure that would shock Don Juan and make swingers of today green with envy. In an English mansion, he's not just doodling in the drawing room with a blue blood's red-hot-blooded mistress; in Africa, he's forced to serve a sultry queen who kills low-endurance lovers. The irresistable antihero heads to China, where he gets between a pair of Chinese beauties who'll do anything to improve East-West relations; en route, he takes cover on warship under fire with an explosive Malay maiden. "A romp that will have lucky readers chortling with delight." (Publishers Weekly)
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Flashman Papers #8
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George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman at his worst. But for his fans, that means he's at his best in this, his most reckless, erotic adventure yet. Flashy yearns to unclothe the wife of a man of the cloth, smuggles opium to Hong Kong, grovels to a warlord, hooks up with a lady pirate from the Amazon and offers himself as a sex toy to the world's most stunning -- and evil -- woman. As usual, Flashy rises to each occasion, no matter how low he must go. "Extremely funny, but meticulously authentic. Between guffaws, you learn from it." (The Washington Post)
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Flashman Papers #9
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George MacDonald Fraser
Yes, history's most unheroic hero is back - to deal with a ravaishing (quite literally) maharani and her equally sex-hungry maid...to join forces with an American adventurer with royal ambitions...to refuse to let loyalty affect his allegiance to self-preservation...and to win the brightest jewel in England's imperial crown at he cost of something he will never miss - namely, honor.
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Flashman Papers #11
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