Flashman Papers 3-Book Collection 4: Flashman and the Dragon, Flashman on the March, Flashman and the Tiger
Flashman Papers 3-Book Collection 4: Flashman and the Dragon, Flashman on the March, Flashman and the Tiger
George MacDonald Fraser
The last three books in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious bestselling Flashman series, now available in one ebook for the first time.FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON: 1860As China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history, and the British and French armies hack their way to the heart of the Forbidden City, Flashman finds his services much in demand. There’s the vicar’s wife, desperate to sell her cargo of opium; the Amazonian bandit queen who, having mislaid five husbands, is casting about for a sixth; Lord Elgin in need of an intelligence chief for a perilous mission to Peking; and the Emperor’s ravishing concubine who would have the hairy barbarian shaved and perfumes and delivered to her pavilion…FLASHMAN ON THE MARCH: 1867-8Who better to undertake a perilous mission into deepest Abyssinia to rescue Britons held hostage by a mad emperor that the ever reluctant Sir Harry Flashman, V.C.? In a land populated by warriors, leather-clad nymphs with a penchant for torture, de-ballocking Amazons, and a voluptuous queen who feeds disobliging guest to her pet lions,Flash Harry’s mastery of lechery and poltrooney will be put to the ultimate test.FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER: 1878-1894Whether embroiled in a plot to assassinate Emperor Franz-Josef, saving the Prince of Wales from scandal, or galloping hell-for-leather with a horde of angry Zulus in hot pursuit, Flashman never disappoints.
THE FLASHMAN PAPERS BOOKS 10–12
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON FLASHMAN ON THE MARCH FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER
Table of Contents
Cover (#ue49f6090-89d6-58c3-ac47-ab2560d813ce)
Title Page (#u9a140252-ce37-5ae0-93fa-9ee588b1a4dd)
Flashman and the Dragon (#u21e543bc-dd67-5bc5-aa5b-45b1fa630a61)
Flashman on the March (#ud0bbc819-b94b-5d72-9e97-7d2030ca2278)
Flashman and the Tiger (#ued17b6fc-485d-5aaf-927f-58c7ba880d77)
About the Author (#u915eb163-5eb1-51ea-a188-133042e25477)
Also by George MacDonald Fraser (#uc1327cdc-6106-525a-b5fe-7c305827ac80)
Copyright (#u8250fe16-f03e-50c7-bc27-942dbbd61c7b)
About the Publisher (#u4fec9eb3-b9ab-5b6e-a646-3ba65f1472de)
(#ulink_5c01ab22-d0c3-570f-83e4-963910026281)
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON
from The Flashman Papers, 1860
Edited and Arranged by
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER
Dedication (#ulink_2fc22f7b-38b9-5962-b9ee-ca1bf1fe5a0d)
For Ka’t-lin
a memento of the Pearl River and Tuah Bee
Table of Contents
Cover (#u21e543bc-dd67-5bc5-aa5b-45b1fa630a61)
Title Page (#u151151e5-248c-52f6-8369-cd725f4f23c9)
Dedication (#uaa005fd5-13c7-51ff-b481-8d5896c79c4d)
Explanatory Note (#uc6b086b2-6365-5970-8554-3349cfd4be14)
Chapter 1 (#uf57e830b-a1b4-5e7c-ae74-a89d4cac64d9)
Chapter 2 (#u0698b088-b531-5e25-ae03-696c88f5161b)
Chapter 3 (#uf4df26f2-8535-5d8d-badc-7ba473b4d30f)
Chapter 4 (#uf280a89a-1289-520f-8bb4-6df1302df679)
Chapter 5 (#ubccf954a-d07d-590c-b066-59771a878cec)
Chapter 6 (#u988792fd-5071-5f74-91fd-520ffe3c3fc7)
Chapter 7 (#u5683b1a6-ae62-5f2a-8825-e106381ea157)
Chapter 8 (#ue1af7145-de32-50c9-a4fd-02cee389d453)
Chapter 9 (#u6b66fca2-4080-595c-ae40-b33f42dc6f52)
Chapter 10 (#u7829901f-2514-50a2-b66c-5fb3800a1bd3)
Chapter 11 (#u2153034f-0b37-543f-b4b4-dd5ad80ac2d1)
Chapter 12 (#u8a177109-1794-5cc0-94bc-b55b1d2cf06a)
Chapter 13 (#u76e40c83-87d3-5769-912e-cdc4c6cb1c1a)
Chapter 14 (#uc547a042-9840-5168-ae02-6454dfcdf373)
Chapter 15 (#u39842394-f209-5958-b882-31306e1e5034)
Appendix I: The Taiping Rebellion (#u9901d48d-adda-5b8d-9929-29f0f120837d)
Appendix II: The Orchid (#u259872c9-1303-5596-91de-77e0abd99643)
Appendix III: The Doctor of Letters of the Hanlin Academy (#u9555000e-435d-5ad7-9be9-f66dd05489a7)
Glossary (#u13f84635-f416-5a3c-b2d4-7c5a733f091f)
Notes (#u7f4c297d-3e8a-54e5-916a-9c435508aab3)
Copyright (#u53b28a48-9989-5574-88a5-52de3a9f0482)
Explanatory Note (#ulink_6d3396ea-6c02-519e-8e02-bd8b87c29cb7)
It is now twenty years since the Flashman Papers, the memoirs of the notorious Rugby School bully who became a Victorian hero, were found in a Leicestershire saleroom. Of the dozen or so packets of manuscript, seven have so far been published in book form; they have covered four military campaigns (the First Afghan War, Crimea, Indian Mutiny, and Sioux War of 1879), and five episodes of less formal and generally reluctant active service – pirate-hunting with Brooke of Sarawak; as military adviser to Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar; as conspirator with Bismarck in the Schleswig-Holstein affair; in the African slave trade and Underground Railroad; and on the American frontier during the Gold Rush. This eighth volume sees him returning to military service in the Taiping Rebellion and Pekin Expedition of 1860.
Not the least interesting feature of Flashman’s recollections, to students of history, is the light they cast on the early years of many famous Victorians, who are seen through the unsparing eyes of one who, while a self-confessed coward, libertine, and scoundrel, was nevertheless a scrupulous reporter. Thus, we have seen him fleeing the murderous wrath of the young politician Bismarck, viewing Congressman Lincoln with wary respect, teaching the infant Crazy Horse how to wink, admiring Lola Montez the aspiring novelty dancer, and toadying to the young Queen Victoria herself. In China he encounters two of the great mercenary captains, a future empress, the founding fathers of the modern British Army and Navy, and those strange, forgotten peasants who changed the face of a great empire. It may be that he provides some new historical insights, while again demonstrating the lengths to which perfidy, impudence, immorality, and poltroonery may be stretched in the enforced pursuit of fame, riches, and above all, survival.
In accordance with the wishes of Mr Paget Morrison, owner of the Flashman manuscripts, I have confined my editing to correcting the old soldier’s spelling, checking the accuracy of the narrative (which is exact where matters of verifiable historical fact are concerned) and inserting the usual foot-notes, appendices, and glossary.
G.M.F.
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George MacDonald Fraser
The last three books in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious bestselling Flashman series, now available in one ebook for the first time.FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON: 1860As China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history, and the British and French armies hack their way to the heart of the Forbidden City, Flashman finds his services much in demand. There’s the vicar’s wife, desperate to sell her cargo of opium; the Amazonian bandit queen who, having mislaid five husbands, is casting about for a sixth; Lord Elgin in need of an intelligence chief for a perilous mission to Peking; and the Emperor’s ravishing concubine who would have the hairy barbarian shaved and perfumes and delivered to her pavilion…FLASHMAN ON THE MARCH: 1867-8Who better to undertake a perilous mission into deepest Abyssinia to rescue Britons held hostage by a mad emperor that the ever reluctant Sir Harry Flashman, V.C.? In a land populated by warriors, leather-clad nymphs with a penchant for torture, de-ballocking Amazons, and a voluptuous queen who feeds disobliging guest to her pet lions,Flash Harry’s mastery of lechery and poltrooney will be put to the ultimate test.FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER: 1878-1894Whether embroiled in a plot to assassinate Emperor Franz-Josef, saving the Prince of Wales from scandal, or galloping hell-for-leather with a horde of angry Zulus in hot pursuit, Flashman never disappoints.
THE FLASHMAN PAPERS BOOKS 10–12
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON FLASHMAN ON THE MARCH FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER
Table of Contents
Cover (#ue49f6090-89d6-58c3-ac47-ab2560d813ce)
Title Page (#u9a140252-ce37-5ae0-93fa-9ee588b1a4dd)
Flashman and the Dragon (#u21e543bc-dd67-5bc5-aa5b-45b1fa630a61)
Flashman on the March (#ud0bbc819-b94b-5d72-9e97-7d2030ca2278)
Flashman and the Tiger (#ued17b6fc-485d-5aaf-927f-58c7ba880d77)
About the Author (#u915eb163-5eb1-51ea-a188-133042e25477)
Also by George MacDonald Fraser (#uc1327cdc-6106-525a-b5fe-7c305827ac80)
Copyright (#u8250fe16-f03e-50c7-bc27-942dbbd61c7b)
About the Publisher (#u4fec9eb3-b9ab-5b6e-a646-3ba65f1472de)
(#ulink_5c01ab22-d0c3-570f-83e4-963910026281)
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON
from The Flashman Papers, 1860
Edited and Arranged by
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER
Dedication (#ulink_2fc22f7b-38b9-5962-b9ee-ca1bf1fe5a0d)
For Ka’t-lin
a memento of the Pearl River and Tuah Bee
Table of Contents
Cover (#u21e543bc-dd67-5bc5-aa5b-45b1fa630a61)
Title Page (#u151151e5-248c-52f6-8369-cd725f4f23c9)
Dedication (#uaa005fd5-13c7-51ff-b481-8d5896c79c4d)
Explanatory Note (#uc6b086b2-6365-5970-8554-3349cfd4be14)
Chapter 1 (#uf57e830b-a1b4-5e7c-ae74-a89d4cac64d9)
Chapter 2 (#u0698b088-b531-5e25-ae03-696c88f5161b)
Chapter 3 (#uf4df26f2-8535-5d8d-badc-7ba473b4d30f)
Chapter 4 (#uf280a89a-1289-520f-8bb4-6df1302df679)
Chapter 5 (#ubccf954a-d07d-590c-b066-59771a878cec)
Chapter 6 (#u988792fd-5071-5f74-91fd-520ffe3c3fc7)
Chapter 7 (#u5683b1a6-ae62-5f2a-8825-e106381ea157)
Chapter 8 (#ue1af7145-de32-50c9-a4fd-02cee389d453)
Chapter 9 (#u6b66fca2-4080-595c-ae40-b33f42dc6f52)
Chapter 10 (#u7829901f-2514-50a2-b66c-5fb3800a1bd3)
Chapter 11 (#u2153034f-0b37-543f-b4b4-dd5ad80ac2d1)
Chapter 12 (#u8a177109-1794-5cc0-94bc-b55b1d2cf06a)
Chapter 13 (#u76e40c83-87d3-5769-912e-cdc4c6cb1c1a)
Chapter 14 (#uc547a042-9840-5168-ae02-6454dfcdf373)
Chapter 15 (#u39842394-f209-5958-b882-31306e1e5034)
Appendix I: The Taiping Rebellion (#u9901d48d-adda-5b8d-9929-29f0f120837d)
Appendix II: The Orchid (#u259872c9-1303-5596-91de-77e0abd99643)
Appendix III: The Doctor of Letters of the Hanlin Academy (#u9555000e-435d-5ad7-9be9-f66dd05489a7)
Glossary (#u13f84635-f416-5a3c-b2d4-7c5a733f091f)
Notes (#u7f4c297d-3e8a-54e5-916a-9c435508aab3)
Copyright (#u53b28a48-9989-5574-88a5-52de3a9f0482)
Explanatory Note (#ulink_6d3396ea-6c02-519e-8e02-bd8b87c29cb7)
It is now twenty years since the Flashman Papers, the memoirs of the notorious Rugby School bully who became a Victorian hero, were found in a Leicestershire saleroom. Of the dozen or so packets of manuscript, seven have so far been published in book form; they have covered four military campaigns (the First Afghan War, Crimea, Indian Mutiny, and Sioux War of 1879), and five episodes of less formal and generally reluctant active service – pirate-hunting with Brooke of Sarawak; as military adviser to Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar; as conspirator with Bismarck in the Schleswig-Holstein affair; in the African slave trade and Underground Railroad; and on the American frontier during the Gold Rush. This eighth volume sees him returning to military service in the Taiping Rebellion and Pekin Expedition of 1860.
Not the least interesting feature of Flashman’s recollections, to students of history, is the light they cast on the early years of many famous Victorians, who are seen through the unsparing eyes of one who, while a self-confessed coward, libertine, and scoundrel, was nevertheless a scrupulous reporter. Thus, we have seen him fleeing the murderous wrath of the young politician Bismarck, viewing Congressman Lincoln with wary respect, teaching the infant Crazy Horse how to wink, admiring Lola Montez the aspiring novelty dancer, and toadying to the young Queen Victoria herself. In China he encounters two of the great mercenary captains, a future empress, the founding fathers of the modern British Army and Navy, and those strange, forgotten peasants who changed the face of a great empire. It may be that he provides some new historical insights, while again demonstrating the lengths to which perfidy, impudence, immorality, and poltroonery may be stretched in the enforced pursuit of fame, riches, and above all, survival.
In accordance with the wishes of Mr Paget Morrison, owner of the Flashman manuscripts, I have confined my editing to correcting the old soldier’s spelling, checking the accuracy of the narrative (which is exact where matters of verifiable historical fact are concerned) and inserting the usual foot-notes, appendices, and glossary.
G.M.F.
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George Fraser
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О книге: The last three books in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious bestselling Flashman series, now available in one ebook for the first time.FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON: 1860As China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history, and the British and French armies hack their way to the heart of the Forbidden City, Flashman finds his services much in demand. There’s the vicar’s wife, desperate to sell her cargo of opium; the Amazonian bandit queen who, having mislaid five husbands, is casting about for a sixth; Lord Elgin in need of an intelligence chief for a perilous mission to Peking; and the Emperor’s ravishing concubine who would have the hairy barbarian shaved and perfumes and delivered to her pavilion…FLASHMAN ON THE MARCH: 1867-8Who better to undertake a perilous mission into deepest Abyssinia to rescue Britons held hostage by a mad emperor that the ever reluctant Sir Harry Flashman, V.C.? In a land populated by warriors, leather-clad nymphs with a penchant for torture, de-ballocking Amazons, and a voluptuous queen who feeds disobliging guest to her pet lions,Flash Harry’s mastery of lechery and poltrooney will be put to the ultimate test.FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER: 1878-1894Whether embroiled in a plot to assassinate Emperor Franz-Josef, saving the Prince of Wales from scandal, or galloping hell-for-leather with a horde of angry Zulus in hot pursuit, Flashman never disappoints.