George MacDonald Fraser

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born

April 02, 1925 in Carlisle, The United Kingdom

died

January 02, 2008

gender

male

genre

Historical Fiction

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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.”

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Books by George MacDonald Fraser

Average rating: 4.04 · 13,426 ratings · 1,036 reviews · 38 distinct works

	Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 2,500 ratings — published 1969 — 26 editions	My rating:
	Royal Flash (The Flashman Papers, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 1,342 ratings — published 1970 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Flashman at the Charge (Flashman Papers, #4) 4.28 avg rating — 1,009 ratings — published 1973 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Flash for Freedom! (The Flashman Papers, #3) 4.06 avg rating — 987 ratings — published 1971 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Flashman in the Great Game (The Flashman Papers, #5) 4.24 avg rating — 913 ratings — published 1975 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Flashman's Lady (The Flashman Papers, #6) 4.03 avg rating — 911 ratings — published 1977 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Flashman and the Mountain of Light (The Flashman Papers, #9) 4.09 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 1991 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Flashman and the Redskins (The Flashman Papers, #7) 4.12 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 1982 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Flashman and the Dragon (The Flashman Papers, #8) 4.13 avg rating — 686 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (The Flashman Papers, #10) 3.96 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions	My rating:

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Series by George MacDonald Fraser

Flashman Papers (12 books)
by George MacDonald Fraser

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Quotes 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

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“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

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“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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