Summary
'It's usually my female readers who write and say that,' [George MacDonald Fraser] says in his perfectly modulated Miss-Jean-Brodie-goes-toGlasgow vowels, unflattened by 35 years as a tax exile on the Isle of Man, '- that he's actually a very modest hero who makes himself out to be a coward and a cad. If that's the way they want to see him, fair enough. But you must remember, he raped a girl in the first book; since then, he's never needed to.'
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What Makes a Hero?
'Flashman's just a monster,' says George MacDonald Fraser. 'He's extremely unpleasant but he knows how to present a front to the world, and at least he's honest about himself. But that was because he assumed that his memoirs would never be published.'
I'd just been putting to the author of the Flashman novels the theory of t...See the full content of this document
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