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| | Harry Paget Flashman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (1996) — John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid, 1858 and 1859. | | | Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman V.C. is a fictional character originally created by the author Thomas Hughes in his semi-autobiographical work Tom Brown's Schooldays, first published in 1857. | | | Though Flashman constantly betrays acquaintances, runs from danger, or hides cowering in fear, he arrives at the end of each volume with medals, the praise of the mighty, and the love of one or more beautiful and enthusiastic women. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Paget_Flashman
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| | Flashman |
| | Flashman, now an old man telling the story of his life, has resolved to hide nothing of his own true conduct and feelings, however damning. | | | Flashman is the first in a series of nine books (so far), and chronicles Sir Harry's life since leaving Rugby School through his thoroughly unwilling participation in the First Afghanistan War in 1842. | | | The tales are told in Flashman's own words which, while not unbiased in interpretation, are completely candid. |
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http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/books/flashman.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Flashman on the March: Books: George MacDonald Fraser |
| | Flashman running from his latest misadventure leaps out of the frying pot and into the fire and finds himself pressed into service as a secret envoy to a monarch in the wilds of outer Abyssinia. | | | Flashman fights savages, beds beautiful women, acts like the all around cad that he is and suffers the usual misfortunes. | | | But then Sir Harry Paget Flashman isn't just another eminent Victorian; he is also the stuff of legend and truly an inspiration to us all. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/000719739X?v=glance
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| | Flashman's Ladies |
| | The Flashman books are masterful in providing insight into the life and times of Victorian England and the major military events (and occasional disasters) of the mid-to-late 19th Century. | | | Obviously, Elspeth is a main character in all the Flashman books, but she comes to her own as the title character in Flashman's Lady. | | | Flashman sells her in order to get enough cash to make good his escape. |
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http://www.maui.net/~makule/ladies.html
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| | Flashman Chronology |
| | Flashman is asked to be an emissary to the Tai Pings, falls in with bandits, takes part in the Seige of Nanking, is captured by the Manchus, and is finally kept as a plaything by the Princess Yehonala at the Summer Palace. | | | With mixed emotions on the matter, Flashman is hauled along on the expedition to save Elspeth-- led by James Brooke, the noted "White Rajah of Sarawak." In the melee, Flashman winds up on Madagascar, where the bloody reign of Queen Ranavalona has made the island into a living hell. | | | From Flashman and the Mountain of Light, page 198: "No one in the Foreign Legion speaks decent French, the boots don't fit, and the bayonet scabbard is a clanking piece of scrap." |
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http://www.pangloss.ca/flashman/Chronology.htm
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| | Spectator, The: Flashman, my hero |
| | Though far from heroic himself, and not an admirer of heroism, he nevertheless knows a hero when he sees one, and some of the best scenes in the books take in Flashman's meditations on historical characters whom he knows to be his moral superiors. | | | At the same time, The Flashman Papers, to give the books their collective title, are based on a joke. | | | Critics are rather too fond of proclaiming that such-and-such a writer has the ability to create a world. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200012/ai_n8928547
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| | Flash for Freedom! (Flashman) (George MacDonald Fraser) |
| | This is the third Flashman book I've read, and it's almost as good as the first book in the series ("Flashman"), which I liked quite a lot, and it's considerably better than "Royal Flash," the second book in the series. | | | It is, of course, almost the perfect vehicle for Flashman's unPC sensibilities, if the reader will forgive the anachronism. | | | The author gets credit for layering his dark satire onto this diciest of subjects, not something every author would have dared, and not sparing it in the least. |
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http://www.truefresco.com/bookshop/us/product/0452260892.htm
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| | Flashman and the Tiger review |
| | Here Lindskold creates the memoirs of a famous Draka "war hero" who in true Flashman fashion exposes himself as a self-serving coward and others as overblown incompetents. | | | Severna Park, Anne Marie Talbott, and Markus Baur all inject Draka timeline-travellers into our reality with interesting results; any one of their stories could be Chapter 1 of the follow-up to Stirling's Drakon. | | | Rabid fans of Flashman may also be interested in the only Flashman-esque piece of writing I've ever read, a deliberate...well, what? |
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/roygoodman/tiger.html
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| | Damn Your Eyes! MetaFilter |
| | When he asks about him, the generals in attendance take it as a sign of nobility that his first words were concern for his men. | | | Although a fictional creation, his tales seem to ring as true as anything written about any other Victorian Gent, whether he got his V.C., took a jezail bullet, or even knew 'little Vicky' herself. | | | You hard-core Flashman junkies should know that General Flashman makes three brief but wonderful appearances in Fraser's _Mr. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/27518
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| | Flashman and the Tiger - George MacDonald Fraser |
| | The first (and by far the longest) story reintroduces Flashman at a leisurely pace (giving the uninitiated some sense of the man and his (dubious but widely hailed) accomplishments. | | | He is most famous for the books in the Flashman series, but has also written numerous other works of fiction and non-fiction. | | | The history alone is fascinating, but, like all the Flashman books, this one is also simply fine entertainment. |
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http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/frasergm/ftiger.htm
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| | Drink, Flashy, Drink |
| | The last mention of Flashman in this book - in which his character as a bully, back-stabber, and coward is firmly established - is when he is expelled after being encountered, drunk, by one of the schoolmasters, and it is with this event that the first of the Flashman novels begins: | | | And always at the center of the action - usually gulping in terror and trying his damnedest to escape - is Flashy, V.C., whose reputation as the indomitable Hero of Kabul and the Hector of Afghanistan is dispelled before the readers' very eyes as the man himself tells the truth behind his glorious 'official' history. | | | Elspeth, Flashman's beautiful Scottish wife, is kidnapped by an exotic admirer. |
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http://www.heliograph.com/trmgs/trmgs4/flashy.shtml
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| | FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES: Flashy's back |
| | Soon Flashman is serving in the Dragoons & making himself generally popular, especially with the Earl of Cardigan, his CO - not universally popular though. | | | It's more that we warm to his style, as he relates his tale of a charmed life and we follow his adventures with morbid fascination, wondering all the while if he can stoop any lower. | | | Now just in case there is anybody out there who hasn't read of Old Fashy before, Harry Flashman was the bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays. |
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http://www.fmft.net/archives/001590.html
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| | Boston Review: Andrew Klavan on Flashman |
| | He is too cowardly -- and too full of lust -- to offend her by pointing out that the price of her slippers would be enough to fund relief for a hundred local families -- that her spirited defense of Indian independence is motored by the desire to preserve her own privilege. | | | The white invaders, meanwhile, are largely pompous buffoons, self-serving careerists and starry-eyed madmen no better in fact, for all their self-righteousness, than Flashman himself. | | | Along the way, he also managed, through lies, luck, betrayal, and a deceptively manly aspect, not only to cover himself in glory, but also to roger every half-willing piece of tail he met, whether monarch or bint, with the (possible) exception of good queen Vic herself. |
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http://bostonreview.net/BR20.4/Klavan.html
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| | Welcome to the WeberWorld Booklists -- George macDonald Fraser, Flashman and "the Dirtiest Soldier in the World" |
| | Not the sort of finely-documented romp through history as the Flashman volumes (though the aged Flashy does make some delightful cameo appearances), this is a smooth, agreeable study of character and how we may know it. | | | Yes, Flashman is the only man who, in that single momentous day, stood with the Thin Red Line and charged with both the Heavy and Light Brigades. | | | Flashy's adventures here seem to have directly inspired one of the world's great romances. |
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http://krasnegar.home.mindspring.com/booklists/books/fraser.htm
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| | Flashman Chronology 1876 - 1915 |
| | In Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, Flashman writes about telling his great-grandchildren about the late abolitionist John Brown. | | | This novel includes the aged General Flashman as a central character, and Fraser has included some items of the then-unpublished Flashman Papers in the dialogue. | | | But, if the unnamed Indian expert is correct, then Flashman may have encountered him during his sojourn in Mexico, where he met the Emperor Maximilian. |
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http://www.pangloss.ca/flashman/Chronology2.html
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| | Pseudo-Victorian Cavalry Regiment - Page 2 - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards |
| | My Pulp Hero character is H. Roger Flashman, the grandson of the famed Hector of Afghanistan. | | | | Height:andnbsp;1.90 m | Hair:andnbsp;Brown | | Weight:andnbsp;100.00 kg | Eyes:andnbsp;Brown | | Appearance:andnbsp;Tall, dark and handsome, with sideburns and moustache, Roger is said to be the spitting image of his famed grandsire. | | Personality:andnbsp;Fearless and honourable, Roger seeks to show that the blood of heroes still flows through the Flashman veins. | | | John Milton predicted, "When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation." |
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http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=748949
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| | Sir Harry Flashman - a tribute to a great Victorian |
| | We are all interested in what gives GMF his inspiration for the Flashman books and about the man himself. | | | There are spoilers scattered throughout this site so beware if you haven't read all the books and don't want to know what happens. | | | This is the heart of the Flashman Reader. |
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http://members.aol.com/FSotUK/FLASHMAN
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| | Flashman at the Charge (George MacDonald Fraser) |
| | The Crimean War, together with serfdom, is quite an embarrassment for the Russians and George MacDonald Fraser spares none of his literary talents describing the 'beauty' and 'excitement' of Russian life in the middle of 19 century. | | | His life on the estate in a beautifully described southern rural Russia (or Ukraine to be precise) turns into yet another amorous affair with a beautiful daughter of a Cossack noble (with another surprise there too, mind you). | | | The intrepid Harry Flashman, a "hero" by all accounts is in his own words, a coward, a cheat, a liar and a womanizer. |
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http://www.truefresco.com/bookshop/us/product/0452264138.htm
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| | Encyclopaedia Morningtonia: History of Flashman Papers, The |
| | Now what neither he or you know is that whilst I was China with Sir James Hope Grant I picked up a trick or two. | | | The arrogant young pup was propping up the bar telling all and sundry how his srtilin' and stadlin' had damn well out striled and stradled his opponent. |
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http://kevan.org/morningtonia.pl?action=history&id=Flashman_Papers,_The
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| | flashman, who was he? |
| | Details of Flashman's early life are recounted in the famous book by Thomas Hughes who scandlously sets Flashman as the bully in his tale of Rugby School in Tom Brown's School days. | | | Flashman is shanghaied to New Orleans, where he is still a wanted man for his working with the Underground railroad. | | | Brigadier General Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC, KCB KCIE |
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http://www.harryflashman.org/flashypapers.htm
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| | The Cumberland News |
| | Flashman himself is ever resourceful in the face of danger and equally inventive in the search for pleasure. | | | As with the other Flashman novels this is a tour de force by an author who is a master of his game. | | | He is a man of immense stamina and in his Abyssinian princess he has met his equal. |
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http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/townandcountry/viewarticle.aspx?id=338178
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Flashman on the March: Books |
| | Here, that least heroic possessor of a Victoria Cross, Sir Harry Flashman, finds himself catapulted into a highly dangerous assignment in Abyssinia: he is to rescue British prisoners from a demented emperor. | | | His Flashman books are much loved, and the exploits of his engaging rogue have been delighted readers for years. | | | After all, the number of Flashman books is now legion, and even the author’s most dedicated admirers would admit that some Flashman outings (while diverting enough) have lacked the freshness of the early books. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400044758
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| | New York Post Online Edition: sunbooks |
| | However, Flashman's degenerate proclivities for drinking, cowardice and bedding every attractive female who comes along make him a totally unsuitable role model - as he would be the first to admit. | | | The insane king of this country is holding a handful of the Queen's subjects captive, and Flashman is sent in undercover to help put the plan into action. | | | As usual, he manages to gain the acclaim and thanks of all involved, while being ruled by the most craven self-interest: to escape with his own skin intact. |
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http://www.nypost.com/sunbooks/31494.htm
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| | The Jack Flashman Collection |
| | Much of the Jack Flashman Collection consists of ship manifests, financial records and business dealings which are only of interest to the diehard historian. | | | But the collection also includes several diaries that shed some light on his personality and his involvement in the American Revolutionary War. | | | This allowed him to accumulate considerable wealth, and even though he seemed to prefer life at sea, his fleet required him to remain ashore in America to manage his business. |
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http://ns.netmcr.com/~ambro/jack.htm
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| | Quotulatiousness: Catblogging |
| | This is exactly where Harry is now: big enough and confident enough to make the lives of the other cats in the household much more interesting. | | | This is Harry Paget Flashman, our youngest cat. | | | Of all the things you could name a pet after, Flashman is probably the best. |
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http://www.bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/000850.html
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| | Anchor Catalog Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser |
| | For the first time in four years comes a new book in George MacDonald Fraser's long-running series chronicling the adventures of Sir Harry Paget Flashman. | | | At once meticulously faithful to fact and wildly fanciful, Flashman and the Tiger is an educational romp through the annals of history; thirty years after he began the series, Fraser is at the top of his game. | | | Eleventh in the series, Flashman and the Tiger features not one, but three stories of international intrigue that find the fictional Flashman thrown headlong into historical events around the world. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385721080
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| | EOT2003 |
| | shot, so my pic of Colonel Sir Harry Paget Flashman did not come out - sorry! | | | Click on any small photo to see a full-size image |
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http://users3.ev1.net/~dave42/shoot/EOT2003/EOT2003.htm
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| | Flashman's Lady |
| | You may also be able to place a request for this book via these links: BN.com, Books-A-Million, Overstock.com, and Powell's Books | | | When his beautiful and brainless wife Elspeth is abducted from Singapore by a half-breed ex-Etonian millionaire, Harry Flashman sets out on an odyssey of reluctant pursuit | | | Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought: |
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http://isbn.nu/0394501357/shipsort
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| | The Royal Flashman Society Gift Shop : CafePress.com |
| | The Royal Flashman Society Gift Shop : CafePress.com | | | The Royal Flashman Society of Southwest Virginia welcomes all Toadies and others wishing to buy products featuring that most noble and gallant of heroes (well, you know what we mean) | | | We think Flash Harry would approve of our crass commericialism. |
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http://www.cafepress.com/royalflashman
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| | ComingAnarchy.com » Blog Archive » RYP: The Anti-traveller |
| | More on Sir Harry Paget Flashman and his official site. | | | Not sure who Harry Flashman is, but I will definitely check him out on your recommendation. |
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http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2005/05/19/ryp-the-anti-traveller
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| | Royal Flashman Society - Sandwich Islands Chapter |
| | The Royal Flashman Society is a collection of avid (and sometimes rabid) readers of the books of George MacDonald Fraser, particularly his series of books which follow the exploits of Sir Harry Paget Flashman. | | | Hickok, like Carson and Cody, was a legend in his own time based on his exploits in the Civil War and while marshal of Hays City and Abilene (which were somewhat embellished in the penny novels of the time). | | | Here are a few links to the other chapters of the Royal Flashman Society. |
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http://www.maui.net/~makule/flashy.html
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| | CAS CITY - COWBOY & WESTERN ACTION SHOOTING WORLDWIDE |
| | Colonel Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE C,dLH USMH SSPT | | | As most long time readers of cas-l are aware that Lady Flashman and I have a small Historical Collection of books on the Victorian/Edwardian Era's as well as the Firearms related ones and L.A's Central Library has always been a Big help. | | | While in school I was haunting Used Bookstores, on one of these Trips I ran across "Flashman" the 1st volume in the Flashman Papers [there are 13 in all Published so far] and I was immediately addicted to the detriment of all else when a new Volume was acquired. |
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http://www.cascity.com/posseprofiles/ColonelFlashman
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| | Flashman - sffworld.com |
| | I just finished the first book in the series, Flashman, which details his involvement in the First Anglo-Afghan War and the 1842 Retreat from Kabul. | | | I heartily recommend these to folks who would like an historical novel with a different kind of protagonist. | | | It was very well written and the historical veracity was very good. |
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http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12115
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| | Re: Is Kerry a Liar? You decide |
| | Colonel Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE -- Thursday, 26 August 2004, at 4:06 a.m. | | | Colonel Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE -- Wednesday, 25 August 2004, at 7:55 p.m. | | | You decide (Colonel Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE) |
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http://www.gunfighter.com/cgi-bin/bbs/general/general3.cgi?read=7157
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| | Flashman and the redskins |
| | Click on a subject to see other books listed with the same subject or to drill down into components of the subject -- such as geographical locations, dates and so on. | | | Flashman and the mountain of light (edited and arranged by George MacDonald Fraser; ISBN: 0452267854; $11.00; 100% match) | | | Flashman, Harry Paget (Fictitious character) -- Fiction (9) |
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http://isbndb.com/d/book/flashman_and_the_redskins.html
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| | Flashman and the Tiger |
| | Flashman explains what really happened to Holmes and Watson during "The Adventure of the Empty House" and describes by way of introduction his first meeting with Col. Sebastian "Tiger Jack" Moran during Flashy's panic-stricken flight from the disaster at Isandhlwana into the frying pan of the Battle of Rorke's Drift during the Zulu War. | | | Beginning with Flashman honey-trapped and drugged into a Mittel Euopa nightmare of an assassination plot on Emperor Franz Josef which threatens to start WWI decades before its time and ending with the shirking bully being railroaded off to Khartoum in the tow of Chinese Gordon, | | | For, don't ye see, Gen. Sir Harry Paget Flashman was the biggest rogue, poltroon, lecher, coward, cheat, toady and hero of the Victorian era. |
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http://nwcitizen.com/wic/BookReviews/FlashmanandtheTiger.html
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00020435 |
| | When the memoirs of Sir Harry Flashman, the notorious Victorian soldier and scoundrel, first came to light thirty years ago, it was finally revealed what had become of the infamous bully who had darkened Tom Brown's school days. | | | Thrown into contact with assorted grand royalty and even grander tarts, he must test his wits against political heavyweights, including Bismarck, as he becomes eyewitness to the uncensored truth about two of the greatest heroes of his time. | | | Publisher description for Flashman and the tiger and other extracts from The Flashman papers / edited and arranged by George MacDonald Fraser. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/00020435.html
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| | MY ANTIHEROES |
| | "Flashman's dishonesty and lechery constantly land him in danger, from which he is only saved by his cowardliness and highly developed instinct for self-preservation." ---as reviewed by the New York Times | | | , a 19th century character made famous by George MacDonald Fraser in his series of novels about Flashman's adventures. | | | Feel free to nominate your own antihero by sending me e-mail. |
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http://www.hal-pc.org/~kent/homepage/antihero.html
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| | Gun stores in Tampa? - THR |
| | I have lived in the bay area for the last 20 something years. | | | University Pawn and Gun has a large selection of quality guns and Kastle Keep in Largo has a huge selection of quality handguns. | | | University Gun and Pawn probably has the biggest selection in Tampa and is always well stocked (at least every time I've been there). |
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http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=131602
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| | flashman - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word flashman: | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "flashman" is defined. | | | Phrases that include flashman: harry flashman, harry paget flashman, stan flashman |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=flashman
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| | Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/roister |
| | .the bullying, lying, lily-livered, lecherous, roistering, brandy-swigging, battle-fleeing, toad-eating Harry Paget Flashman, whose charming roguery has won him a worldwide following. | | | -- Michael Browning, "Flashman' Trio Fine Fun, Leaves Us Shouting 'More!'," |
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http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/02/20.html
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| | General Flashman's Salmon |
| | Well, given that my cat is named after the highly decorated British General Harry Paget Flashman, V.C., K.C.B., K.C.I.E.; Chevalier, Legion of Honour; U.S. Medal of honor; San Serafino Order of purity and truth, 4th Class, I figured that I had to name a dish after him. | | | And what better for a cat than a meal of fish? | | | So, we have General Tso's Chicken, named for the obviously brilliant General Tso. |
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/8496/salmon.html
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| | flashman Home Page! |
| | The Society's original site can be found here and contains more Flashman Material! | | | Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames. |
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http://www.harryflashman.org/home.htm
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| | Barking at shovels: Invitations |
| | I am, of course, topmost Flashman fan and love to see namesake name in print...even a Barking Shovel place. | | | Doctor is alive and well and has practices at Engrish.com. | | | The Doctor would be pleased to attend the next party provided Lord Fahruz is omitted from the guest list. |
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http://www.gungeralv.org/notes/archives/2005/09/invitations.php
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| | All The Queen's Men |
| | • Fraser used Flashman to give a rather racy view of the period. | | | • The central figure taken by Fraser was the rake, Harry Paget Flashman. |
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http://www.esuhistoryprof.com/all_the_queen's_men.htm
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| | That I could again hope to experience such sensations! | | | : Flashman, Harry Paget, Brigadier-General, VC, KCB, KCIE; Chevalier, Legion d'Honneur; US Medal of Honor; San Serafino Order of Purity and Truth, 4 |
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http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~jfair/page43.html
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