The Flashman Papers are a series of novels and short stories written by <a href="/c/books/credit/235195/George-MacDonald-Fraser/">George MacDonald Fraser</a>, 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:
• <a href="/c/books/book/415512/flashman/">Flashman</a> (1969)
• <a href="/c/books/book/414999/royal-flash/">Royal Flash</a> (1970)
• <a href="/c/books/book/415132/flash-for-freedom/">Flash for Freedom!</a> (1971)
• <a href="/c/books/book/416289/flashman-at-the-charge/">Flashman at the Charge</a> (1973)
• <a href="/c/books/book/416329/flashman-in-the-great-game/">Flashman in the Great Game</a> (1975)
• <a href="/c/books/book/416613/flashmans-lady/">Flashman's Lady</a> (1977)
• <a href="/c/books/book/416614/flashman-and-the-redskins/">Flashman and the Redskins</a> (1982)
• <a href="/c/books/book/417484/flashman-and-the-dragon/">Flashman and the Dragon</a> (1985)
• <a href="/c/books/book/417481/flashman-and-the-mountain-of-light/">Flashman and the Mountain of Light</a> (1990)
• <a href="/c/books/book/415601/flashman-and-the-angel-of-the-lord/">Flashman and the Angel of the Lord</a> (1994)
• <a href="/c/books/book/414584/flashman-and-the-tiger/">Flashman and the Tiger</a> (1999)
• <a href="/c/books/book/416900/flashman-on-the-march/">Flashman on the March</a> (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.
