Flash for Freedom!

Flash for Freedom!
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 356
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780006511274
ISBN-13 : 0006511279
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Flash for Freedom! by : George MacDonald Fraser

From political evenings in Wiltshire to the jungle death-house of Dahomey, the arch-cad triumphs once again by the skin of his chattering teeth.

Flashman

Flashman
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0452259614
ISBN-13 : 9780452259614
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Flashman by : George MacDonald Fraser

"If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman."–P.G. Wodehouse The first novel in the Flashman series Fraser revives Flashman, a caddish bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and relates Flashman’s adventures after he is expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Flashy enlists in the Eleventh Light Dragoons and is promptly sent to India and Afghanistan, where despite his consistently cowardly behavior he always manages to come out on top. Flashman is an incorrigible anti-hero for the ages. This humorous adventure book will appeal to fans of historical fiction, military fiction, and British history as well as to fans of Clive Cussler, James Bond, and The Three Musketeers.

Flash for Freedom!

Flash for Freedom!
Author :
Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 304
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101633786
ISBN-13 : 1101633786
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Flash for Freedom! by : George MacDonald Fraser

A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississippi as he dabbles in the slave trade in Volume III of the "Flashman Papers". When Flashman was inveigled into a game of pontoon with Disraeli and Lord George Bentinck, he was making an unconscious choice about his own future - would it lie in the House of Commons or the West African slave trade? Was there, for that matter, very much difference? Once again Flashman's charm, cowardice, treachery, lechery and fleetness of foot see the lovable rogue triumph by the skin of his chattering teeth.

Flashman at the Charge

Flashman at the Charge
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 343
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101633847
ISBN-13 : 1101633840
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Flashman at the Charge by : George MacDonald Fraser

“Hilariously funny.”—The New York Times Book Review “Great dirty fun!”—Grand Rapids Press “The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time… Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next… Wonderful and scandalous.”—Publishers Weekly 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, among others, which explores the successful though scandalous later career of the bully in Tom Brown's School Days.

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 472
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101633809
ISBN-13 : 1101633808
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Flashman and the Angel of the Lord by : George MacDonald Fraser

“A jolly read.”—The Wall Street Journal The tenth installment in The Flashman Papers finds Captain Harry Flashman of Her Majesty's Secret Service in the antebellum South, where the irrepressible, globe-trotting Victorian becomes the target of blackmailing beauties. Evading danger, bedding women, and profiting from every opportunity, Flashman once again weasels his way into history, this time in John Brown’s raid of Harper’s Ferry, just before the Civil War. As a result of Flashy’s letching, lying, cheating, and stealing on land, on sea, and on the rails, not only did John Brown become a martyr, Lincoln became president, and the nation plunged into a bloodbath.

Flashman's Lady

Flashman's Lady
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 401
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101633861
ISBN-13 : 1101633867
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Flashman's Lady by : George MacDonald Fraser

What is Flashy doing? -in the drawing room of a great English mansion with the redhot-blooded mistress of a violently jealous blue-blood? -in between a pair of Chinese beauties who are willing to do anything and everything to close the gap between East and West? -in the hold of a warship under fire, with a Malay maiden as explosive as the shells bursting above? -in the forced service of an African queen who lets a lover stay alive only as long as his power to please holds up? This unblushing cad, this lustful libertine, this infamous and irresistible antihero is clearing doing better than ever—in a round-the-world adventure that would make Queen Victoria pale with shock and swingers of today green with envy.

Flight to Freedom

Flight to Freedom
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 236
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0439381991
ISBN-13 : 9780439381994
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Flight to Freedom by : Ana Veciana-Suarez

First Person Fiction is dedicated to the immigrant experience in modern America. "Flight to Freedom" is closely based on Suarez's own story of leaving Cuba during the Freedom Flights of the 1960s. Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist Party, are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There, Yara encounters a strange land with foreign customs. She knows very little English, and she finds that the other students in her new school have much more freedom than she and her sisters. Tension develops between her parents, as Mami grows more independent and Papi joins a militant anti-Castro organization.

Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game

Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game
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Publisher : Everyman's Library
Total Pages : 922
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307592682
ISBN-13 : 0307592685
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game by : George MacDonald Fraser

Three of George MacDonald Fraser’s incomparable and hilarious novels featuring the lovable rogue, soldier, cheat, and coward: Harry Paget Flashman. Praised by everyone from John Updike to Jane Smiley, Fraser was an acknowledged master of comedy and satire, an unrivaled storyteller, whose craft was matched only by his impeccable historical research. And his greatest creation was, of course, Flashman. The novels collected here find our hero in the midst of his usual swashbuckling adventures of derring-do: fleeing adversaries in the First Anglo-Afghan War; meeting and nearly deceiving a young Abraham Lincoln in America; alternately impersonating a native Indian cavalry recruit and wooing women in India; and managing, whatever the circumstances, to keep his hero’s reputation unsullied. A must-have treat for the legions of dedicated Flashman fans, and a delightful introduction for those lucky enough to be encountering him for the first time.

Freedom Songs

Freedom Songs
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Publisher : Capstone
Total Pages : 30
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781434204455
ISBN-13 : 1434204456
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Freedom Songs by : Trina Robbins

Sarah, a fourteen-year-old slave living in Maryland in the 1850s, tries to escape to freedom in the North through the Underground Railroad, knowing that her path to freedom will be filled with danger.

Royal Flash

Royal Flash
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Publisher : Flashman Papers
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0006511260
ISBN-13 : 9780006511267
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Royal Flash by : George MacDonald Fraser

From London gaming hells and English hunting fields to Prussian dungeons and throne rooms, Flashman is involved in a desperate succession of escapes, disguises, amours and (when he can not avoid them) hand-to-hand combats while the destiny of the of a continent lies on his shoulders.