Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:06:38 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] The return of that Victorian cad, bounder, coward . . .
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Flashman on the March
March 2005
UK only, so far.

What, you haven't read Flashman?  Gadzooks!

Amazon.co.uk's description of the first book in the "series" Flashman:

"The first instalment of the Flashman Papers sees the fag-roasting
rotter from Tom Brown's Schooldays commence his military career as a
reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan. Expelled from Rugby for
drunkenness, and none too welcome at home after seducing his father's
mistress, the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord
Cardigan's Hussars. En route to Afghanistan, our hero hones his skills
as a soldier, duellist, imposter, coward and amorist (mastering all 97
ways of Hindu love-making during a brief sojourn in Calcutta), before
being pressed into reluctant service as a secret agent. His Afghan
adventures culminate in a starring role in that great historic disaster,
the Retreat from Kabul."

mjw