Pages found the perfect basis for a new series. Literary heroes while keeping in touch with the 1960s.įraser turned to another old book for solace and within its Rogue, a scoundrel but something fun, a parody of sorts, and a nod back to his Popular fiction was missing was a hero in the old mould: a swashbuckler, a His publishers did not want his pirate novel Captain in Calico, preferring something more humorous and racy that Grown up on the heroic novels of Jeffrey Farnol and Rafael Sabatini, but unfortunately In the late 1960s, Fraser was on the hunt for a hero. 2019 is the 50 th anniversary of the publication of the first book in The Flashman Papers, and a special review of the phenomenon that is Flashman is required. In 1969, author George Macdonald Fraser introduced the character of Harry Flashman to an unsuspecting literary world.
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