According to the explanatory note prefacing each volume, Harry Paget Flashman, the notorious bully of Thomas Hughes’ Tom Brown’s Schooldays, was an actual Englishman who wrote his multi-volume memoirs in the early years of the twentieth century, probably between two and 1905. The seven volumes of George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman Papers posit just such a discovery. Imagine for a moment the excitement which would sweep the literary world if a catalogue of Sotheby-Parke-Bernet or Christie’s announced for sale the long-lost memorandums of Moll Flanders, the journal of Razumov, or the business of papers of Leopold Bloom and suddenly a heretofore fictional character were translated from one realm of reality to another.
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