Flashman.
por Fraser, George MacDonald
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Sobre este item
New York:: World,, 1969... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket with light wear to the head of the spine. The first in the Flashman series in which Fraser revives Flashman, a caddish bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and relates Flashman�s adventures after he is expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Flashy enlists in the Eleventh Light Dragoons and is promptly sent to India and Afghanistan, where despite his consistently cowardly behavior he always manages to come out on top. Flashman is an incorrigible anti-hero for the ages. .
Sinopse
The first instalment of the Flashman Papers sees the fag-roasting rotter from Tom Brown's Schooldays commence his military career as a reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan. Expelled from Rugby for drunkenness, and none too welcome at home after seducing his father's mistress, the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord Cardigan's Hussars. En route to Afghanistan, our hero hones his skills as a soldier, duellist, imposter, coward and amorist (mastering all 97 ways of Hindu love-making during a brief sojourn in Calcutta), before being pressed into reluctant service as a secret agent. His Afghan adventures culminate in a starring role in that great historic disaster, the Retreat from Kabul.
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- Livreiro
- Gregor Rare Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 28246
- Título
- Flashman.
- Autor
- Fraser, George MacDonald
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- World,
- Local de publicação
- New York:
- Data de publicação
- 1969..
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palavras-chave
- Flashman
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- Spine
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