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A Flashy education.(Book Review)

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20050321
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Byline: DJ TAYLOR

George MacDonald Fraser's irascible hero is back but with a more intellectual outlook on life

Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser (HarperCollins, [pounds sterling]17.99)

THE PAST decade has been a thin time for us Flashman fanciers. Busy with his movie autobiography The Light's on at Signpost (2002) and before that Black Ajax (1997), the novel about the Regency-era boxer Tom Molineaux, George MacDonald Fraser has not produced a full-length Flashman novel since 1994's Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, with only the fragmentary, ...

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