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...version, Tom Brown's schooldays are briefer and follow a clear-cut development. Tom goes off to school and after a series of squabbles, battles and fights, some humiliating and some victorious, he vanquishes his oppressor, the prototypical cad, Flashman. Flashman, the school bully, was the subject of a Howard Hughes-like book of biography a few years ago, and he has endured at least as well as has Tom Brown himself as a model Victorian social leper...
...this, the third installment of his maculate memoirs, Harry Flashman comes to the United States (circa 1848). As usual it is all a terrible mistake. "Whenever I'm feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself," the great bounder glumly remarks, "some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after...
...Benjamin Disraeli. Flashy is precipitated through a few more dead waters of Victorian history and into a series of unspeakable yet plausible adventures. Among them are a slaving voyage, a sea battle off New Orleans, a meeting with Abe Lincoln (who spots him for a fraud, but not before Flashman tosses off a nice line about fooling some of the people all of the time), and a brief term of actual enslavement. "By the time you laboured in the sun a spell, you brown up pretty good, I reckon," says the plantation owner. Thereafter Flashy manages a cold-sweat crossing...
...just been published. Equipped with nothing more than a few basic history texts and a taste for turpitude, Fraser now appears to be parlaying the fictional recollections of his imaginary character into something closely resembling a perpetual motion novel. Of course it helps to have a rotter like Harry Flashman up front. "Bluff, my boy-bluff, shift and lie for the sake of your neck and the honor of Old England." "Charles Elliott
Fraser is so far best known as the spoofing inventor of Henry Paget Flashman (Flashman, 1969, and Royal Flash, 1970), the compleat bounder. He thus comes to the reivers with an acute understanding of unsporting behavior. It stands him in excellent stead. After Henry VIII defeated the Scots at Solway Moss in 1542, for example, the fleeing survivors were held for ransom by their own border countrymen...