Hidden in George MacDonald Fraser’s safe was the long-lost manuscript ... He had a great gift for the absurd, and his comic novels, The Pyrates and The Reavers, show that talent at its surreal ...

These latest excerpts from the Flashman Papers--three novellas--carry on George MacDonald Fraser's conceit that the cowardly bully from Thomas Hughes's Victorian novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays ...

FLASHMAN : FROM THE FLASHAAAN PAPERS 1839-1842, edited and arranged by George MacDonald Fraser. 256 pages. World. $5.95. It should have been obvious that Brigadier General Sir Harry Flashman was ...