![]() ![]() In fact, these last two are the only categories of people in the world he's prepared to risk his own life for. He has almost no redeeming qualities in Fraser's books either, except for crystal-clear powers of observation and real affection for his wife Elspeth and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The character Flashman is taken from the Victorian novel Tom Brown's Schooldays, where he is presented without any redeeming qualities. The author had a fondness for Refuge in Audacity and strove to make his stories - narrated by the eponymous rogue from the perspective of his comfortable retired life - as deliciously offensive as possible. They are presented as the memoirs of an infamous Victorian war hero who describes his adventures as a bully, rapist, lecher, backstabber, and coward. The Flashman novels by George MacDonald Fraser are a Picaresque series of adventures, starring Harry Flashman. Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC, KCB, KCIE, From the Flashman Papers 1839-1842 ![]()
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