George MacDonald Fraser
I got to Flashman, or rather he got to me, too late. Had I discovered this rapscallion before or even during the period of my life when I was required to learn the history of Queen Victoria's reign exams would have been a pleasure and I'm certain I would have sailed through with flying colours. Sadly, that was not to be so my knowledge of History was duly assessed as being pretty poor. However, since then I've read and re-read his adventures many, many times and strongly reccommend you to do the same with an especial note to parents of teenagers who are faced with that period of history to learn to point your offspring in this direction. They'll thank you for it!!
Read the synopses as listed here:-
Flashman / Royal Flash / Flash for Freedom / Flashman's Lady
The Flashman Papers: Vol I - Flashman
Shameless, exciting and funny, Flashman's deplorable odyssey is observed with the cynical eye of a scoundrel who was honest only in reporting what he saw. Based on the character in "Tom Brown's Schooldays" he makes all other black sheep look respectively grey. The hero triumphs in this first instalment whilst giving an accurate and extremely well researched insight into the period.
ISBN 0006511252
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The Flashman Papers: Vol II - Royal Flash
In this second volume, the arch-cad matches his wits, his talents for deceit and malice, and above all his speed in evasion against the most brilliant European statesman and against the most beautiful and unscrupulous adventuress of the era.
ISBN 0006511260
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The Flashman Papers: Vol III - Flash for Freedom
When Flashman was inveigled into a game of Pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future - would it lie in the House of Commons or the West African slave trade?
ISBN 0006511279
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Flashman's Lady
When Flashman accepted an invitation to join in a friendly cricket match, he little knew that he was letting himself in for a desperate game that would see him from the wicket at Lord's to the jungle lairs of Borneo pirates, from a Newgate hanging to the torture pits of Madagascar.
ISBN 0006513018
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