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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.

  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 .

  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.

  5. What Harry Flashman teaches us about empire. The anti-hero embodies Britain's awkward colonial reckoning. Malcolm McDowell as Flashman in “Royal Flash”, 1975.

  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. Flashman Papers Series. 14 primary works • 25 total works. Sir Harry Paget Flashman is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008), but based on the character "Flashman" in Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes (1822–1896). This list is not in the order of Flashman's life ...