![]() ![]() ![]() Suppose one were then, ingeniously, to place him in every major colonial (mis)adventure of the Victorian age, starting with the first Afghan War. Its central conceit is inspired: suppose one were to take up from Thomas Hughes’s worthy Victorian classic of boarding school life, Tom Brown’s Schooldays, a relatively minor character - a bully called Flashman - and imagine his life after he was expelled from Rugby. Wodehouse.Īt first, the book is promising. One can imagine the scene: an earnest young editor picks up a copy of the books, drawn to them by the enthusiastic plaudits on the jackets, waiting for that “watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet” feeling promised by the blurb from the sainted P.G. ![]() I suppose it’s only a matter of time before the times catch up with George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman books. ![]()
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