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  1. Flashman's portrait (unnamed, but with unmistakable background and characteristics) hangs in the home of the protagonist of The Peshawar Lancers, an alternative history novel by S. M. Stirling: the family claims to have had an ancestor who held Piper's Fort, as Flashman did; the protagonist claims his sole talents are for horsemanship and ...

  2. George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels. The Flashman Papers is a series of novels and short stories written by George MacDonald Fraser, the first of which was published in 1969. The books centre on the exploits of the fictional protagonist Harry Flashman.

    Title And Time
    Publisher
    Date
    Length (first Edition)
    Flashman (1839–1842)
    Herbert Jenkins
    1969
    256 pp
    Royal Flash (1842–1843 and ...
    Barrie & Jenkins
    1970
    256 pp
    Flash for Freedom! (1848–1849)
    Barrie & Jenkins
    1971
    272 pp
    Flashman at the Charge (1854–1855)
    Barrie & Jenkins
    1973
    286 pp
  3. Presented within the frame of the discovery of the supposedly historical Flashman Papers, this book chronicles the subsequent career of the bully Flashman from Tom Brown's School Days. The book begins with a fictional note explaining that the Flashman Papers were discovered in 1965 during a sale of household furniture in Ashby , Leicestershire .

    • George MacDonald Fraser
    • 1969
  4. Utilizing a gloriously ridiculous conceit, George MacDonald Fraser takes this supporting actor from a mid-nineteenth century novel and repurposes him as the title character in The Flashman Papers, a 12-book series of which Flashman is the introductory volume.

    • (14.9K)
    • Paperback
  5. George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman Papers series depicts the adventures of a bully, coward and rapist who becomes a hero of the empire. The novels expose the hypocrisy and brutality of imperial rule, but also reflect the author's nostalgia for a lost glory.

    • Aris Roussinos
  6. The Flashman Series in order of the internal chronology. Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1), Royal Flash (The Flashman Papers, #2), Flashman's Lady (The ...

  7. A series of historical novels by George MacDonald Fraser featuring Sir Harry Flashman, a fictional character based on a bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays. The books follow Flashman's adventures in various historical events and conflicts, often with humor and satire.