ROYAL FLASH

“MARVELOUS SATIRE, ROUSING ADVENTURE…A RARE TREAT!”

—Publishers Weekly

“A whole series of lurid escapades: boudoir Olympics, dungeons heroics, throne room intrigues, with Flashman switching from Casanova to lackey, from loudmouth to Cincinnatus, as the situations demand. Here, looming large and loud in the graffiti-thick halls of power, is a bootlicking Falstaff, a beau sabreur with a balsa spine, a lax harlequin who, through his venal and Visigothic adventures, candidly admits what kind of thing he is, and sensibly tups all available females lest his massive parts atrophy. A blue and humourous vein is wide open; let it pour, Fraser, till the heart’s content!”

—Chicago Tribune Book World

“The finest parodist now putting pen to paper and tongue in cheek…for pure, joyous entertainment ROYAL FLASH is the loudest hurrah of the year.”

—Cleveland Plain Dealer

ROYAL FLASH

FROM THE FLASHMAN PAPERS

1842–3 and 1847–8

EDITED AND ARRANGED BY

George MacDonald Fraser

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Published by Plume, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Previously published in a
hardcover edition by Alfred A. Knopf, and in a paperback edition by Signet.

First Plume Printing, August 1985

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925–

Royal Flash, from the Flashman papers, 1842–3 and 1847–8

ISBN: 978-1-101-63387-8

Reprint. Originally published: 1st American ed.

New York: Knopf, 1970.

I. Title.

PR6056.R287R6        1985        823’.914        84-22717

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PUBLISHER’S NOTE

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.