Fraser, George MacDonald - Fraser, George MacDonald 1925–
Fraser, George MacDonald 1925–
Fraser is an English novelist and short story writer, the creator of Harry Flashman. The first of the Flashman novels was received as serious fiction; now Fraser's farcical intentions are amply appreciated. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 45-48.)
"It is never difficult," said P. G. Wodehouse, "to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine." And a Scotsman in an army uniform is a Scotsman with a grievance: We have encountered the techiness of this cast before, in George MacDonald Fraser's previous collection, The General Danced at Dawn. McAuslan in the Rough—his … collection of seven longish stories—offers all the enjoyment that readers must have felt when Kipling paraded out his own reckless subalterns…. Fraser's highland battalion is bursting with energy; hard-drinking and accident-prone, it is about as rambunctious as it is possible to be this side of...
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