Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game

Resumen del libro

For George MacDonald Fraser the bully Flashman was easily the most interesting character in Tom Brown's Schooldays, and imaginative speculation as to what might have happened to him after his expulsion from Rugby School for drunkenness ended in 12 volumes of memoirs in which Sir Harry Paget Flashman - self-confessed scoundrel, liar, cheat, thief, coward - and, oh yes, a toady' - romps his way through decades of nineteenth-century history in a swashbuckling and often hilarious series of military and amorous adventures. In Flashman the youthful hero, armed with a commission in the 11th Dragoons, is shipped to India, woos and wins the beautiful Elspeth, and reluctantly takes part in the first Anglo-Afghan War, honing a remarkable talent for self-preservation.Flash for Freedom! finds him crewing on an African slave ship, hiding in a New Orleans whorehouse and fortuitously running into rising young American politician Abraham Lincoln...

Biografía del autor

p b GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER (1925 2008) /b fue un novelista conocido principalmente por su serie de novelas sobre el gran Harry Flashman. Fraser sirvió en el Ejército británico durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y trabajó como periodista antes de dedicarse a la escritura. Además de su serie más famosa, escribió guiones de películas como i Los tres mosqueteros /i (1973) y i Octopussy /i (1983). Su habilidad para combinar aventura, sátira y realismo histórico lo convirtió en una figura única en la literatura contemporánea. Sus novelas sobre Harry Flashman han sido un éxito de ventas en todo el mundo.<br>