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I agree that the Flashman books are great fun, but as I recall--I haven't looked into those books for a long time--Flashman doesn't spend all that much time in the States. Am I wrong about that? The author, by the way, is George MacDonald Fraser. ... & Cramer's The Ascent of Wonder, but also now working on Banks' Feersum Endjinn and also George Macdonald Fraser's Royal Flash, a lend from a friend (that's the one where GMF re-works The Prisoner of Zenda with Bismarck as a major player). ... of it to film or television that may be out there, I'm familiar with several other retellings of it, most notably Royal Flash. In comparison to the others, Double Star was just... too easy. Our protagonist is rarely in any real danger. It appears that the original intention really ... ... Ontario on summer vacation before my junior year of high school. They didn't have the first book, so I started with Royal Flash. I had never heard of Tom Brown's School Days at the time, though a couple of years ago I did run across a copy on the incinerator shelves at the library ... ... from the effects of a pistol-ball which had been dug out of the small of my back, there was a nasty shock awaiting me."
Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser ... back in the early 80s was into Flashman, but I didn't pick up the books until a couple of years ago when I ran across Royal Flash. Was totally hooked, especially by the footnotes (I'm such a geek). ... out of the remaining memory cells. . . . I guess Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Fraser's Royal Flash would come under humor? I haven't read it, but how about Updike's Gertrude and Claudius?
Several authors have used characters from other books, or real ...
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