![]() ![]() ![]() Macdonald Fraser then devoted several years of his life editing these papers, adding scholarly introductions and notes. Some time in the late 1960s, author George Macdonald Fraser came across the Flashman papers – detailed accounts of his eventful life written by Flashman in his old age, in inimitable style. And, despite all his efforts to keep out of trouble, he found himself witnessing some of the most momentous events in history, and even taking his part in them. Despite being a coward and a bully and an all-round bad egg, he was accidentally mistaken for a hero, and became famous throughout the British Empire. ![]() After expulsion from Rugby School, he led a colourful life. While Thomas Hughes, the author, presents the novel as a fiction, Flashman was real enough. We may think that Flashman, the vicious and cowardly bully in Tom Brown’s Schooldays, was a fictional character. ![]()
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