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George MacDonald Fraser

    2 avril 1925 – 2 janvier 2008

    Cet auteur est célèbre pour sa série de romans historiques, présentés comme les mémoires supposées d'un héros fictif de l'armée britannique du XIXe siècle. Il mêle magistralement des décors historiques méticuleusement documentés à une représentation spirituelle et ironique d'un protagoniste qui progresse dans les rangs malgré sa lâcheté et sa nature roublarde. Sa voix narrative distinctive offre une perspective unique, entraînant les lecteurs à la fois dans l'époque et dans la vie intérieure complexe de son personnage central. Les œuvres sont louées pour leur mérite littéraire et leur narration captivante.

    Flashman on the March
    Royal Flash : from The Flashman Papers
    Flashman at the Charge
    Quartered Safe Out Here
    Flashman in the Great Game
    Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game: Introduction by Michael Dirda
    • The collection features the misadventures of Harry Paget Flashman, a charming yet unscrupulous character known for his cowardice and cunning. Through a blend of humor and historical context, Fraser crafts a narrative that follows Flashman’s escapades as he navigates various challenges, showcasing his unique personality. The novels offer a satirical look at Victorian society while delivering engaging storytelling that highlights Flashman's escapades as a soldier and scoundrel.

      Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game: Introduction by Michael Dirda
    • Flashman in the Great Game

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      4,4(264)Évaluer

      The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. The author has written several books about Flashman, and books of short stories, including The General Danced at Dawn.

      Flashman in the Great Game
    • Quartered Safe Out Here

      • 358pages
      • 13 heures de lecture
      4,4(129)Évaluer

      `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 Here
    • 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 Charge
    • A series of novels featuring Flashman, the character from Tom Brown's Schooldays. They concern his life after expulsion from Rugby School in the late 1830s and are a sequence of memoirs in which the arch-cad reviews, from the safety of old age, his exploits in bed and battle.

      Royal Flash : from The Flashman Papers
    • Flashman on the March

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      4,1(1954)Évaluer

      Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., returns to play his (reluctant) part in the Abyssinian War of 1868 inthe long-awaited twelfth installment of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers.

      Flashman on the March
    • Captain Harry Flashman's covert missions for Her Majesty's Secret Service have taken him all over the globe--Afghanistan, Borneo, Madagascar, Indian and China--but never before has he encountered so formidable a challenge and attempted to rise to it with such hilarious ineptitude as in his latest adventure.

      Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
    • Black Ajax

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      4,0(41)Évaluer

      Bringing historical fact spiritedly to life, Fraser tells the rollicking tale of how a Virginia slave, "the black Ajax, " fought his way to freedom and then to celebrity in England in the early 1800s.

      Black Ajax
    • The Steel Bonnets

      The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture
      4,1(481)Évaluer

      From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life—and a way of survival. Power was held by the notorious border reivers (the "steel bonnets," named for their flashy helmets), who robbed and murdered in the name of family: the famous clans (or "grains")—like Elliot, Armstrong, Charlton, and Robson—romanticized by Sir Walter Scott. In The Steel Bonnets , George MacDonald Fraser, author of the bestselling Flashman novels, and himself a borderer, tells the fascinating and bloody story of the reivers, their rise to power as ferocious soldiers of horse, and their surprisingly sudden fall from grace.

      The Steel Bonnets
    • Flash Harry is back The critically acclaimed eleventh installment of the Flashman Papers. Flash Harry is back The first new Flashman novel since Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, this is the long-awaited new instalment of the Flashman Papers. When Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., the celebrated Victorian soldier, scoundrel, amorist and self-confessed poltroon's memoirs first came to light thirty years ago, the world was finally illuminated about what became of the celebrated cowardly bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays. Now, in addition to the other famous adventures of Flash Harry contained in the Flashman Papers, come three new episodes in the career of this eminent if disreputable adventurer. The title piece touches on two of the most spectacular military actions of the century and sees Flashman pitted against one of the greatest villains of the day, and observing, with his usual jaundiced eye, two of its most famous heroes. As always with George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman's adventures are related with verve, dash and meticulous historical detail.

      Flashman and the tiger: and other extracts from the Flashman papers