Title: Everything you would expect from an anti-hero
Product review: Harry Flashman is the quinticential anti-hero: a liar, cheat, adulterer, poltroon, theif and braggart. He is also seen as the very model of Victorian virtue. And therein lies the appeal and delicious duplicity that has made the Flashman papers so popular. We, the reader, are in on the joke.In _Flashman_, the template is set for Fraser's other Flashman novels: Flash's unceremonious expulsion from public school, his "shotgun wedding," and the wildly undeserved accolades for bravery and gallantry while Flashy engages in every manner of dubious and lecherous behaviour.For fans of historical fiction, military history or slightly off-colour humor, I highly recommend it.
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