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Flashman and the Angel of the Lord.

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From: National Review
Date: 19950710
Author:Lejeune, Anthony

IT WAS a good idea in the beginning and has grown steadily richer. George MacDonald Fraser, a Scottish journalist, decided some thirty years ago to write his way out of the frustration caused by not being appointed editor of the Glasgow Herald; and the thought that struck him was to borrow Flashman, the handsome, bullying villain of that pious Victorian work Tom Brown's Schooldays, and follow his adult adventures, a colorful anti-hero much more interesting than the pallid Tom Brown. Flashman himself would be the narrator: sardonic, lecherous, cowardly, and selfish, but quick-witted, ...

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