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George MacDonald Fraser; OBITUARY.(Features)(Obituary)

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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20080104
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IN THE old smoking rooms of our pubs and clubs, whenever mention was made of a rattling good yarn, his name loomed into view amid the thundering of hooves and the flashing of sabres, followed by some supping and the leisurely unlacing of a lady's corset.

For, from the brilliance of his mind, sprang one of the greatest cads in British literature, Sir Harry Paget Flashman (1822-1915)-proud brute, cheat, womaniser, jibbering coward, rakehell, who rode through the stench and blood of Victorian history, but always emerged triumphant and superbly dressed to collect his totally ...

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