Flashman is the first in a series of comic historical novels by George MacDonald Fraser based around the exploits of Harry Flashman, the antagonist of Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes. Picking ...
Knopf. 335 pp. $24 It is now 40 years since the Flashman papers were fortuitously discovered during a sale of household furniture at Ashby, Leicestershire. As edited and arranged by the distinguished ...