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39 reviews
George MacDonald

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1981

Lilith: First and Final
The Johannesen edition of George MacDonald's Lilith is a truly valuable library addition for any literary student or MacDonald scholar. Not only is the Johannesen text hardbound in a slick, dark green cover with gold leafing for the front cover and spine, as well as the highly durable, acid-free pages within, but the fact that the Johannesen edition contains both the final, printed version of ...

Royal Flash (Flashman)

29 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1985

You KNOW you want it! So buy it!
One bloody narrow escape after another! Flashman, Aubrey/Maturin, Jack Bauer! It must be atavistic, the thrill I feel from them, hormonally encrypted by my neanderthal evolution! Plus Flashman comes with 'entremeses' of lechery between the entrees of fish and foul! If you are so much as considering RoyaL Flash, you should - you must - have read the first of the series, titled simply Flashman. ...

Flashman: A Novel (Flashman)

92 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1984

Excellent read
Only recently discovered GMF. Flashman is a great read. Hard to put down. I look forward to reading more Flashman adventures.

Flashman at the Charge (Flashman)

27 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1986

Flash is Getting Soft!
After reading "Flash for Freedom," with its nauseous blatant racism expressed through Flashman's perspective, I began to wonder why I was drawn to the series. Even in the Spanish picaresque novels, rogues tend to mature in their skullduggery. But I already had "Flashman at the Charge" in the exercycle pile, so I plunged in. I'm glad I did. This is the most successful episode yet, in terms of ...

Flash for Freedom! (Flashman)

22 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1985

Filthy Groveling Narcissistic Swine!
Hard to take! Bundle 3 of the Flashman Papers exposes Harry at his nauseating worst - smug and cowardly, vile in thought and deed, and appallingly callous in his racism. Racism is a touchy subject for me. If Harry or his creator had been physically accessible, there might never have been a volume 4. Only the perception that Flashman wasn't Fraser, but just a 'fallible narrator' in literary terms, ...

The Reavers

3 reviews
George Macdonald Fraser

Knopf, 2008

Funny, but not his best
The Reavers is very much in the style of Fraser's "Pyrates" but, in my opinion, not as successful. For those of you more familiar with the Flashman books, both The Reavers and Pyrates are more over-the-top, more fantastic, and the narrator is constantly interjecting with a wink and a nudge. Pyrates is probably my all-time favorite Fraser novel-- but The Reavers felt more like a rehash. Even ...

The Princess and the Goblin (Puffin Classics - the Essential Collection)

42 reviews
George Macdonald

Puffin, 1997

One of the best fantasy books period
So it's written for children but I could hardly tell the difference. The simplicity of the storytelling made it all the more appealing and the veins of courage, humilty, and human frailty running through it were impressive and awe inspiring. Like I said it's simple but don't let that word fool you. It's brilliantly written and encourages the reader to look at his or her own character. "As water ...

Flashman and the Mountain of Light (Flashman)

12 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1992

"There Were Some Damned Odd Fellows About in the Earlies"
In George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman and the Mountain of Light', our man Flashy sees Queen Vicky holding the Koh-I-Noor diamond and flashes back to India - more precisely, the Punjab where he arrives just in time for the first Anglo Sikh War (1845-46), not to suggest that Flashman had a hand in the war or anything. The reader meets some of the most colorful figures ever to occupy the ...

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

12 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Skyhorse Publishing, 2007

Quartered safe out here
A superb book which is not just a personal account of the 2nd World War in Burma, but also an attack on nannyism in Britain today. At times it reads along the 'it wasn't like that in my day' lines, but I found I totally agreed with all sections of this sort. It is, as you'd expect, full of hunour as well. I fully recommend it Roger Hunt

Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel (Flashman)

20 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1989

An Ambivalence Wrapped Up in an Ambiguity
Midway through his memoirs of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Harry Flashman ruminates: What beats me is the way people take it to heart -- what do they expect in war? It ain't conducted by missionaries, or chaps in Liberal clubs, snug and secure. But what amuses me most is the fashionable way views change -- why, for years after Cawnpore, any vengeance wreaked on an Indian, mutineer or not, was ...

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord

20 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1996

Flashman Does it again!
Wonderful story as usual. A 19th Century Forest Gump (a little brighter but more cowardly and more lecherous) finds himself at the center of history's most important events hobnobbing with the memorable charcters and real life men of greatness. Don't miss it!

The Wise Woman and Other Stories (Fantasy Stories of George MacDonald)

5 reviews
George MacDonald, Craig Yoe

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1980

CLASSIC--SUPERB
The standout of this collection is the title story, "The Wise Woman, or, The Obstinate Princess." The princess in question is Rosamund, whose royal parents have spoiled her absolutely rotten. In fact, they are sick of her, she's so disgustingly violent and selfish (thanks largely to their 'care'). Enter the Wise Woman, who steals Rosamund away underneath her voluminous cloak and takes Rosamund ...

Flashman and the Dragon (Flashman)

20 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1987

Dancing Truth's Tightrope
After reading Hornblower and Bolitho, I thought I would give the army a try. Fraser is an excellent teller of historical fiction with a touch of Jeffery Deaver for fun! Quite graphic in his portrayls of the characters and events, Flashman delves into the whys and not just the hows. Yes, Flashman is a roque, but if given the chance - wouldn't we all?

The Complete Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics)

11 reviews
George Macdonald, U. C. Knoepflmacher

Penguin Classics, 1999

The Complete Fairy Tales
This book gives a great perspective into fairy tales and how they were told during the eighteen hundreds. It is a fun, scary, spriritual reflection of that age.

Phantastes

44 reviews
George MacDonald

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1981

Father of modern fantasy- or father of depth psychology?
I was not sure what to expect from this novel. I had from reading C.S. Lewis known that he considered MacDonald to be his "master." I also knew that he was highly regarded by both J.R.R. Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton. Then there was the fact that so many called him the father of modern fantasy. In light of this I expected to find an early adventure tale set in faeryland with a few elves and dragons ...

Flashman on the March (Flashman Papers)

34 reviews
George Macdonald Fraser

Anchor, 2006

Flashman on the March
This book lives up to the high standard of humor previously set in all the other books in the Flashman series - and set in accurate history time-lines. This is a great laugh all the way through - and very hard to put down. The book was received in EXCELLENT condition !

Flashman and the Tiger

42 reviews
George Macdonald Fraser

Anchor, 2001

You'd think Flash would have to repeat himself
Fraser squeezed another Flashy episode into that brief human life and me, I'm glad. So will you be also. The Flashman Papers continue to offer up new episodes in this series. In this one Flashy's reflections are more more mature, but his cynicism remains intact, his wisdom a human one recognizing our weaknesses as humans, none more than his own.

Flashman's Lady (Flashman)

16 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1988

Courage! and deal the cards.
After my third episode of Flashy's exploits, I slurp them down as fast as I can; they increase in audacity and fascinating historical tidbits. How could a poltroon outwit the great Bismark, outmanoeuver Pirates, be seen at the scene of pivotal political events?? Flashman empowers me to run boring errands, endure dull political correctness and other mealy-mouthed characteristics of our era. My ...

AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND (Barbour Christian Classics)

6 reviews
George MacDonald

Barbour Publishing, 2005

BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT!!!!!!!
BUY IT you will love it if you have a kid that likes fiction books or you like them yourself you will love it. it does not have a boring part in it the whole thing is so magical and the writer knows his cliff hangers no wonder he inspired C.S. Lewis [who is also one of my favorite writers] and it is a three hundred and seventeen page book that you wish would never end it is probably one of the ...

Flashman and the Redskins (Flashman)

21 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Plume, 1983

Flashy reluctantly helps tame the Wild West.
"I never did learn to speak Apache properly. Mind you, it ain't easy, mainly because the red brutes seldom stand still long enough - and if you've any sense, you don't either, or you're liable to find yourself studying their system of vowel pronunciation while hanging head-down over a slow fire or riding for dear life across the Jornada del Muerto with them howling at your heels and trying to ...

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