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Article: Flashman, the Victorian rogue is back, this time drawing swords in Berlin.(Books)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2000
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What better way to celebrate the start of the 21st century than to learn that the 19th is still alive and well? That notorious Victorian rogue, womanizer, drunkard, card sharp, coward and poltroon Sir Harry Flashman is back in town.
Thirty years after George MacDonald Fraser brought us the first meaty installment of the Flashman papers, the memoirs of the notorious cad, bully and bounder created by Thomas Hughes more than a century before in "Tom Brown's Schooldays," here he is again - more despicable, whining, blubbering, lecherous, drunk and scheming than ever. Oh, blessed fortune. Oh, happy day.
Mr. Fraser continues to build on one of the most ...