Flashman in the Great Game - Couverture souple

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Fraser, George MacDonald

 
9780330248013: Flashman in the Great Game

Synopsis

From the author of THE CANDLEMASS ROAD, FLASH FOR FREEDOM! and BLACK AJAX, a historical thriller featuring Flashman, focusing on the Indian mutiny of the late 1850s.

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Revue de presse

Praise for the Flashman series
“Hilariously funny.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Great dirty fun!”—Grand Rapids Press
 
“The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time... Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next... Wonderful and scandalous.”—Publishers Weekly
 
“Raises dastardliness to the level of an art... One of the most amusing and sardonic novels I have ever read!”—Omaha World
 
“As irreverent and picaresque as Tom Jones and always more dramatic... Flashman is a one-man demolition squad!”—Chicago Today
 
“Marvelously entertaining... A delight!”—Providence Journal

Biographie de l'auteur

George MacDonald Fraser was a bestselling historical novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is perhaps most famous for his series of Flashman novels, featuring his antihero Harry Flashman. In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous screenplays, most notably The Three Musketeers and the James Bond film Octopussy. George MacDonald Fraser died in 2008 at the age of 82.

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