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Romping through history with a notorious coward, womaniser and thief as needed, frasers ostensible recourse to flashmans diaries offers irreverent, humourous and exciting insights into actual historical events. Fraser, who died aged 82, was a onetime journalist who found fame with his novels looking back on. Below is a list of george macdonald fraser s flashman papers books in order of when they were originally published as well as in chronological order. In the pyrates, the author of the celebrated flashman novels pays tongueincheek homage to the swashbuckling books and movies that have always stirred his. Read the pyrates by george macdonald fraser available from rakuten kobo. Right from the off, when author george macdonald fraser announces book the first in gloriously bombastic capital letters, the pyrates is an absurdly overthetop anachronistic comedyadventure romp in the vein of monty python, terry pratchett and the carry on films though frasers book predates pratchett, whose first discworld book was published in the same year. The pyrates by george macdonald fraser librarything. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character flashman. George macdonald fraser of flashman fame has turned his attention to the pirate genre, with hilarous results. Author george macdonald was born december 10, 1824 in aberdeenshire, scotland, and died september 18, 1905 in surrey, england. Books by george macdonald fraser author of flashman.
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