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George MacDonald Fraser

    2 de abril de 1925 – 2 de enero de 2008

    Este autor es célebre por su serie de novelas históricas, presentadas como las supuestas memorias de un héroe ficticio del ejército británico del siglo XIX. Combina magistralmente escenarios históricos meticulosamente investigados con una representación ingeniosa e irónica de un protagonista que asciende en las filas a pesar de su cobardía y naturaleza pícara. Su distintiva voz narrativa ofrece una perspectiva única, atrayendo a los lectores tanto a la época como a la compleja vida interior de su personaje central. Las obras son elogiadas por su mérito literario y su atractiva narrativa.

    Royal Flash : from The Flashman Papers
    Flashman at the Charge
    Quartered Safe Out Here
    Flashman in the Great Game
    Flashman el libertador
    Las aventuras de Harry Flashman - 7: Flashman y los pieles rojas
    • El salvaje Oeste y la batalla de Little Big Horn es uno de los escenarios ideales para que un personaje como Flashman desarrolle sus mejores artes: el engaño, la traición, el juego sucio... En esta novela tiene ocasión de demostrar hasta qué extremos es capaz de llegar con tal de salvar el pellejo. Y la sátira que hace MacDonald Fraser tanto de los indios como de los soldados y políticos americanos no deja títere con cabeza.

      Las aventuras de Harry Flashman - 7: Flashman y los pieles rojas
    • Flashman in the Great Game

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      The story of what happened to Flashman, the caddish bully of Tom Brown's Schooldays, after he was expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. The author has written several books about Flashman, and books of short stories, including The General Danced at Dawn.

      Flashman in the Great Game
    • Quartered Safe Out Here

      • 358 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      `There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan

      Quartered Safe Out Here
    • The fourth volume of memoirs in which Harry Flashman confronts destiny with Lord Cardigan and the Light Brigade. Part of the FLASHMAN series, comprising FLASHMAN, ROYAL FLASH and FLASH FOR FREEDOM, which explores the successful though scandalous later career of the bully in TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS.

      Flashman at the Charge
    • A series of novels featuring Flashman, the character from Tom Brown's Schooldays. They concern his life after expulsion from Rugby School in the late 1830s and are a sequence of memoirs in which the arch-cad reviews, from the safety of old age, his exploits in bed and battle.

      Royal Flash : from The Flashman Papers
    • Flashman on the March

      • 336 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., returns to play his (reluctant) part in the Abyssinian War of 1868 inthe long-awaited twelfth installment of the critically acclaimed Flashman Papers.

      Flashman on the March
    • The tenth novel in the Flashman series. Flashman's efforts land him in one of the tightest corners of his inglorious but not unexciting career. Contributing to igniting the US Civil War, he's saved by a dusky beauty. He can be relied on to live down his reputation in bed and battle.

      Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
    • Black Ajax

      • 256 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Bringing historical fact spiritedly to life, Fraser tells the rollicking tale of how a Virginia slave, "the black Ajax, " fought his way to freedom and then to celebrity in England in the early 1800s.

      Black Ajax
    • The Steel Bonnets

      The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers

      • 432 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      From the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, outlaws reigned supreme on the contentious frontier between England and Scotland. Feud and terror, raid and reprisal, were the ordinary stuff of life—and a way of survival. Power was held by the notorious border reivers (the "steel bonnets," named for their flashy helmets), who robbed and murdered in the name of family: the famous clans (or "grains")—like Elliot, Armstrong, Charlton, and Robson—romanticized by Sir Walter Scott. In The Steel Bonnets , George MacDonald Fraser, author of the bestselling Flashman novels, and himself a borderer, tells the fascinating and bloody story of the reivers, their rise to power as ferocious soldiers of horse, and their surprisingly sudden fall from grace.

      The Steel Bonnets