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Fraser George MacDonald

    Questo autore è rinomato per la sua serie di romanzi storici, presentati come le presunte memorie di Harry Flashman. Flashman, originariamente concepito come un codardo e un bullo, rievoca i suoi giorni di avventure come eroe dell'esercito britannico nel XIX secolo. I romanzi sono celebrati per la loro meticolosa accuratezza storica e una voce narrativa distintiva che ha affascinato la critica letteraria. Queste opere offrono una prospettiva unica sulla storia attraverso un protagonista le cui motivazioni sono spesso tutt'altro che eroiche.

    Flashman's Lady
    Flashman on the March
    Flashman and the Redskins
    Flashman and the Mountain of Light
    Flashman at the Charge
    Quartered Safe Out Here
    • Flashman

      • 256pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      "If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman."–P.G. Wodehouse The first novel in the Flashman series Fraser revives Flashman, a caddish bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and relates Flashman’s adventures after he is expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Flashy enlists in the Eleventh Light Dragoons and is promptly sent to India and Afghanistan, where despite his consistently cowardly behavior he always manages to come out on top. Flashman is an incorrigible anti-hero for the ages. This humorous adventure book will appeal to fans of historical fiction, military fiction, and British history as well as to fans of Clive Cussler, James Bond, and The Three Musketeers.

      Flashman2009
      4,0
    • Flashman and the Redskins

      • 512pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.

      Flashman and the Redskins2006
      4,3
    • The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade. Part of the FLASHMAN series, comprising FLASHMAN, ROYAL FLASH and FLASH FOR FREEDOM, which explores the successful though scandalous later career of the bully in TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS.

      Flashman at the Charge2006
      4,3
    • Flashman on the March

      • 416pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.

      Flashman on the March2006
      4,1
    • Quartered Safe Out Here

      • 358pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      `There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan

      Quartered Safe Out Here2000
      4,4
    • Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.

      Flashman's Lady1999
      4,1
    • Flashman and the Mountain of Light

      From the Flashman Papers, 1845-46 - First Time in Paperback

      • 397pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Harry Flashman is a reluctant military hero, surviving key roles in defining military campaigns of the 1800s, mostly through his talent for fornication. Alas he cannot avoid the terrors of secret service in the debauched and intrigue-ridden Court of the Punjab, the attentions of its beautiful nymphomaniac Maharani (not that he minded that, really), the horrors of its torture chambers or the baleful influence of the huge cursed Mountain of Light diamond.

      Flashman and the Mountain of Light1999
      4,3
    • The Pyrates

      • 416pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      Repackaged to tie-in with hardback publication of The Reavers' and to appeal to a new generation of George MacDonald Fraser fans, The Pyrates' is a swashbuckling romp of a novel.

      The Pyrates1996
      3,6