Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game: Introduction by Michae [Hardcover]

Three of George MacDonald Fraser’s incomparable and hilarious novels featuring the lovable rogue, soldier, cheat, and coward: Harry Paget Flashman.

Praised by everyone from John Updike to Jane Smiley, Fraser was an acknowledged master of comedy and satire, an unrivaled storyteller, whose craft was matched only by his impeccable historical research. And his greatest creation was, of course, Flashman. The novels collected here find our hero in the midst of his usual swashbuckling adventures of derring-do: fleeing adversaries in the First Anglo-Afghan War; meeting and nearly deceiving a young Abraham Lincoln in America; alternately impersonating a native Indian cavalry recruit and wooing women in India; and managing, whatever the circumstances, to keep his hero’s reputation unsullied.

A must-have treat for the legions of dedicated Flashman fans, and a delightful introduction for those lucky enough to be encountering him for the first time.“A novelistic gallop through history and imagination. . . . Fraser can easily juggle Conan Doyle and Holmes, Fleming and Bond, Wodehouse and Wooster, and Chandler and Marlowe.”
—Vanity FairGeorge MacDonald Fraserwas born in England and served in a Highland regiment in India, Africa, and the Middle East. In addition to the twelve Flashman novels, he wrote screenplays, most notably for the James Bond filmOctopussy. He died in 2008.

Michael Dirdais a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic forThe Washington Postand the author of the memoirAn Open Bookand of four collections of essays:Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book,andClassics for Pleasure.‘Don’t wait to die on the field of honour. Heroes draw no higher wages than the others.’– soldier of fortune Paolo di Avitabile inFlashman

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