Jena wrote:
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> I know I'm probably going to look like a complete moron, but who is
> Flasman? Which series?
It's actually "Harry Flashman". Perhaps if I had not typo-ed it,
it might not have been so confusing...lol.
Anyway, author George MacDonald Frasier wrote a brilliantly
satirical series of novels, based on the character "Harry
Flashman".
http://www.harryflashman.org/
I believe it originated in the old British classic "Tom Brown's
School Days", a classic "boys novel", which kind of has a place
in British culture, the same way "Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn" has in
American culture. "Harry Flashman" was a smart-ass, wise-cracking,
"ne'er-do-well" upperclassman in the book. Frasier "borrowed"
the character, and wrote his novels as a series of quasi-historical
novels on British history in the 19th century. He places "Flashman"
at all sorts of historical events; with "Harry" acting as a catalyst
for setting the events in motion. Frasier's historical research
is top-notch, and the novels are even heavily foot-noted. They are
so well written, that when the first one was published, the New
York Times Book Review actually reviewed it as "historical *non*
fiction"!
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