George MacDonald Fraser





George MacDonald Fraser

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born
in Carlisle, The United Kingdom
April 02, 1925

died
January 02, 2008

gender
male

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About this author

He is best known for his Flashman series of historical novels, purportedly written by Harry Flashman, a fictional coward and bully originally created by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days. The novels are presented as "packets" of memoirs written by the nonagenarian Flashman, who looks back on his days as a hero of the British Army during the 19th century. The series begins with Flashman, and is notable for the accuracy of the historical settings and praise from critics. P.G. Wodehouse said of Flashman, “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.”


Average rating: 4.10 · 21,779 ratings · 1,345 reviews · 53 distinct works · Similar authors
Flashman (The Flashman Pape...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 4,076 ratings — published 1969 — 32 editions
Royal Flash (The Flashman P...
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 2,190 ratings — published 1970 — 17 editions
Flashman at the Charge (Fla...
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 1,639 ratings — published 1973 — 16 editions
Flash for Freedom! (The Fla...
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 1,603 ratings — published 1971 — 16 editions
Flashman in the Great Game ...
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 1,480 ratings — published 1975 — 13 editions
Flashman's Lady (The Flashm...
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 1,494 ratings — published 1977 — 14 editions
Flashman and the Mountain o...
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,195 ratings — published 1991 — 14 editions
Flashman and the Redskins (...
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,213 ratings — published 1982 — 12 editions
Flashman and the Dragon (Th...
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 1,134 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions
Flashman and the Angel of t...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 987 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions
More books by George MacDonald Fraser…
“There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.”
George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Mountain of Light

“The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.”
George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman at the Charge

“If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed.”
George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman

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