The Flashman Papers are a series of novels and short stories written by George MacDonald Fraser, the first of which was published in 1969. The books centre on the exploits of the fictional protagonist Harry Flashman. He is a cowardly British soldier, rake and cad who is placed in a series of real historical incidents between 1839 and 1894. While the incidents and much of the detail in the novels have a factual background, Flashman's actions in the stories are either fictional, or Fraser uses the actions of unidentified individuals and assigns them to Flashman. Flashman is a minor character in the 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days; Hughes' version of the character is a bully at Rugby School who is expelled for drunkenness. The character was then developed by Fraser, and appeared in the 1969 novel Flashman. Fraser went on to write a total of eleven novels and one collection of short stories featuring the character.
Publication Order:
• Flashman (1969)
• Royal Flash (1970)
• Flash for Freedom! (1971)
• Flashman at the Charge (1973)
• Flashman in the Great Game (1975)
• Flashman's Lady (1977)
• Flashman and the Redskins (1982)
• Flashman and the Dragon (1985)
• Flashman and the Mountain of Light (1990)
• Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (1994)
• Flashman and the Tiger (1999)
• Flashman on the March (2005)
Chronological Order:
• Flashman (1839–42)
• Royal Flash (1842–43 and 1847-48)
• Flashman's Lady (1842–45)
• Flashman and the Mountain of Light (1845–46)
• Flash for Freedom! (1848–49)
• Flashman and the Redskins (1849–50 and 1875–76)
• Flashman at the Charge (1854–55)
• Flashman in the Great Game (1856–58)
• Flashman and the Angel of the Lord (1858–59)
• Flashman and the Dragon (1860)
• Flashman on the March (1867–68)
• Flashman and the Tiger
- The Road to Charing Cross (1878 and 1883-84)
- The Subtleties of Baccarat (1890-91)
- Flashman and the Tiger (1879 and 1894)
Note: some sources list Flashman's Lady as the 2nd and Royal Flash as the 3rd books in the chronological order.
