Tom Brown's School Days
Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Boarding schools
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Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Boarding schools
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Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 1871
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Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Clerks
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Author : Thomas Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Boats and boating
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Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1984-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780452259614
"If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman."–P.G. Wodehouse The first novel in the Flashman series Fraser revives Flashman, a caddish bully from Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, and relates Flashman’s adventures after he is expelled in drunken disgrace from Rugby school in the late 1830s. Flashy enlists in the Eleventh Light Dragoons and is promptly sent to India and Afghanistan, where despite his consistently cowardly behavior he always manages to come out on top. Flashman is an incorrigible anti-hero for the ages. This humorous adventure book will appeal to fans of historical fiction, military fiction, and British history as well as to fans of Clive Cussler, James Bond, and The Three Musketeers.
Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307425924
It’s 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero, is back! Fleeing a chain of vengeful pursuers that includes Mexican bandits, the French Foreign Legion, and the relatives of an infatuated Austrian beauty, Flashy is desperate for somewhere to take cover. So desperate, in fact, that he embarks on a perilous secret intelligence-gathering mission to help free a group of Britons being held captive by a tyrannical Abyssinian king. Along the way, of course, are nightmare castles, brigands, massacres, rebellions, orgies, and the loveliest and most lethal women in Africa, all of which will test the limits of the great bounder’s talents for knavery, amorous intrigue, and survival. Flashman on the March—the twelfth book in George MacDonald Fraser’s ever-beloved, always scandalous Flashman Papers series--is Flashman and Fraser at their best.
Author : Tony Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1351709674
This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world. The book explores how the world’s football codes - soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian and Gaelic - developed as part of the commercialised leisure industry in the nineteenth century. Football, however and wherever it was played, was a product of the second industrial revolution, the rise of the mass media, and the spirit of the age of the masses. Important reading for students of sports studies, history, sociology, development and management, this book is also a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football in all its forms, as well as an engrossing read for anyone interested in the early history of football.
Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Americans
ISBN : 9780006470182
For this riotous Edwardian caper, the author of the bestselling "Flashman Papers" presents a raucous adventure that brings America's Wild West to London's West End and features arch-cad Harry Flashman.