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Flashman

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Flashman a character in Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) by Thomas Hughes, revived from 1969 in a series of humorous novels by George Macdonald Fraser. Flashman is a bully and a coward (as in the original novel), and his reputation as a hero is entirely undeserved, but his saving grace appears to be that he is free from the hypocrisy of many of the more moral characters around him.

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Flashman

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Flashman, a character in Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes and revived in a series of humorous novels by George Macdonald Fraser.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Flashman." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Flashman." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Flashman.html

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Flashman." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Flashman.html

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