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Flash and awe Chaaarge! He was there with the Light Brigade. And at Custer's last stand. And Rorke's Drift. And thoughout it all, he remained a complete and utter bastard. Huzzah for Flashman, cheers D J Taylor, moved by the cadences of a vile lif

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20050410
Author:D J Taylor

When the Victorian critic Andrew Lang declared that, if forced to choose between the latest Henry James and 'a fight between a crocodile and a catawumpus', he would cheerfully settle for the catawumpus, he was making an important point about the primal urges that inform our attitude towards even the most exalted kinds of literature. To put it another way, the average person reads David Copperfield not merely to appreciate Dickens' portrait of mid-19th- century mercantilist society, but to relish the triumph of good over evil, lost hearts, just desserts and the spectacle of Uriah Heep being ...

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