"Greg Heilers" <gNOSPAMheilers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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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> Greg Heilers
> Registered Linux user #328317 - SlackWare 9.1
>
A typo??? You have no idea how long I've been sitting here trying to
figure
out who the heck Flasman was.... it was driving me insane. LOL.
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