George MacDonald Fraser
Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 10
Language
English
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Description
“A jolly read.”—The Wall Street Journal
The tenth installment in The Flashman Papers finds Captain Harry Flashman of Her Majesty's Secret Service in the antebellum South, where the irrepressible, globe-trotting Victorian becomes the target of blackmailing beauties.
Evading danger, bedding women, and profiting from every opportunity, Flashman once again weasels his way into history, this time in John...
The tenth installment in The Flashman Papers finds Captain Harry Flashman of Her Majesty's Secret Service in the antebellum South, where the irrepressible, globe-trotting Victorian becomes the target of blackmailing beauties.
Evading danger, bedding women, and profiting from every opportunity, Flashman once again weasels his way into history, this time in John...
Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 7
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The seventh volume of the Flashman Papers records the arch-cad's adventures in America during Gold Rush of 1849 and the Battle of Bighorn in 1876, and his acquaintance with famous Indian chiefs, American soldiers, frontiersmen and statesmen.
Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 11
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
For the first time in four years comes a new book in George MacDonald Fraser's long-running series chronicling the adventures of Sir Harry Paget Flashman. Eleventh in the series, Flashman and the Tiger features not one, but three stories of international intrigue that find the fictional Flashman thrown headlong into historical events around the world.
This time out Flashman is thwarting an attempted assassination of Austria's Emperor Franz...
This time out Flashman is thwarting an attempted assassination of Austria's Emperor Franz...
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume III of the Flashman Papers. When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future - would it lie in the House of Commons or the West African slave trade? Was there, for that matter, very much difference? Once again...
Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 8
Language
English
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Description
It is 1860, and while China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hack their way to the heart of the Forbidden City, Flash Harry hoodwinks them all.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
vii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Captain John Rackham, called Calico Jack, a pirate who marauded the Caribbean seas, is wanted by the government on counts of piracy. He makes a surprise visit to the governor's residence and asks for pardon for his men. A deal is brokered, but the governor does not reveal that Jack,s beloved fiancee has become betrothed to the governor himself. Jack discovers he has been deceived and publicly threatens the governor, then locks swords with a notorious...
7) Royal Flash
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In this volume of The Flashman Papers, Flashman, the arch-cad and toady, matches his wits, his talents for deceit and malice, and above all his speed in evasion against the most brilliant European statesman and against the most beauiful and unscrupulous adventuress of the era. From London gaming-halls and English hunting-fields to European dungeons and throne-rooms, he is involved in a desperate succession of escapes, disguises, amours and (when he...
8) Flashman
Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s.
Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 9
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This ninth volume of The Flashman Papers, faithfully edited and transcribed by Fraser, finds that Sir Harry Flashman is back in India, where his saga began. This time, our hero is sent by Her Majesty's Secret Service to spy on the corrupt court of Lahore, on India's Northwest Frontier. Flashy's most challenging exploit yet is as politically shrewd and thoroughly lewd as ever.
Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 4
Language
English
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Description
“Hilariously funny.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Great dirty fun!”—Grand Rapids Press
“The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time… Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next… Wonderful and scandalous.”—Publishers Weekly
The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts...
“Great dirty fun!”—Grand Rapids Press
“The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time… Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next… Wonderful and scandalous.”—Publishers Weekly
The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts...
Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 10
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
394 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Flashman papers volume 12
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
365 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1845 and crisis time along the fabled Northwestern Frontier, where the vast and disciplined forces of the Sikhs are poised to invade British India and sweep the ill-protected, understaffed Empire into the sea. A spy is needed to infiltrate the debauched and intrigue-ridden court of the Punjab, and it is Flashman's luckless lot to be impressed into Her Majesty's Secret Service for this purpose.
19) Red Sonja
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After her family is murdered, a young woman becomes a master of the sword and seeks revenge on the evil queen responsible for the mayhem that has befallen her.
20) Octopussy
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From a thrilling jet chase to a climactic countdown to nuclear disaster, James Bond is back in an electrifying adventure that pushes the limit for nonstop excitement. Roger Moore portrays the immortal action hero, perfectly capturing Agent 007's deadly expertise, acerbic wit and overpowering sex appeal as he investigates the murder of a fellow agent who was clutching a priceless Faberge egg at the time of his death.