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Flashman and the Mountain of Light (Flashman) (urspr publ 1990; utgåvan 1992)

av George MacDonald Fraser

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Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. The British Empire needs a man to satisfy insatiable lust and indulge in ungentlemanly acts - fortunately it has Harry Flashman. And with the mighty Sikh army poised to invade India, Flashman must go back into secret service and this time contend with the intrigues of the Court of Punjab.… (mer)
Medlem:podocyte
Titel:Flashman and the Mountain of Light (Flashman)
Författare:George MacDonald Fraser
Info:Plume (1992), Edition: Reprint, Paperback
Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
Betyg:****
Taggar:Novel, Flashman, Fiction, Book read before 2010

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Flashman and the Mountain of Light av George MacDonald Fraser (1990)

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    Tom Browns skoltid av Thomas Hughes (Cecrow)
    Cecrow: The original novel from which the character Flashman is borrowed.
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El impenitente aventurero viaja a la India y, curiosamente, al poco tiempo estalla la guerra de los sijs. Una aventura en la que, además de descubrir los entresijos de los servicios secretos en tiempo de guerra, Flashman tendrá tiempo de embarcarse en la búsqueda de una mítica piedra preciosa, inmiscuirse en asuntos secretos con su característica falta de tacto e incluso darse un revolcón con alguna de las muchas bellezas orientales que le saldrán al paso. Todo un carácter.
  Natt90 | Feb 16, 2023 |
I won't pretend that I've ever needed leave to bolt. I hadn't been given the precious gift of life to cast it away in back alleys, brawling on behalf of fat rajas and randy widows, and I was going like a startled fawn and rejoicing in my youth…" (pg. 180).

Another great Flashman adventure – one of the best. We've had Flashman the scoundrel before, Flashman the lecherous, Flashman the lucky, Flashman the hilarious. This was all of those things and yet it was also something new: it was Flashman doing his duty. Of course, it helps that doing his duty demands, on this occasion, lechery, guile and other damned underhand things besides, including conspiring with a Sikh general to think of ways to lose a battle on purpose...

As ever, Mountain of Light displays all the great qualities that I've come to expect from the Flashman books. It involves a return to India, scene of Flashman's greatest adventures (in my opinion), and that country's uniquely indefinable spirit of exotic adventure acquits itself well here too. It even has as a fairly prominent character the real historical figure of Josiah Harlan, who was inspiration for Kipling's 'The Man Who Would Be King' and consequently for the 1975 film adaptation starring Michael Caine and Sean Connery – one of the best adventure films of all time (I'd put money on it being a favourite of Fraser's, too). There's a lot more espionage and intrigue than in previous books, as Flashman is serving as a diplomatic agent for British interests in the Punjab and doing it as only he can (hint: it involves bedding a voluptuous Indian queen).

It's also, as ever, cracking historical fiction. Fraser's Flashman books are exceptional at introducing us to events and campaigns of the Victorian era which don't figure prominently in the history books, and Mountain of Light is no exception. It gives a gripping account of the First Anglo-Sikh War, a peculiar and yet extremely violent war with all the trimmings: bloodthirsty enemies, incompetent commanders and stirring cavalry charges. And with the future of British India at stake, b'gad. Great ending too: Catch! It's ripping storytelling and a great experience. To appropriate and rejig the words of the Duke of Wellington (who knew Flashman for a scoundrel): By God! I don't think it would have done if I had not been there!
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  MikeFutcher | Jun 3, 2016 |
Harry Flashman is back again! It almost seems like he won't go away. The year is 1845 and this time Flashy is a spy for Her Majesty's Secret Service! When we last left Flashy he was in Singapore. I have to admit, the start to Flashman and the Mountain of Light was a little slow this time around. It took me two chapters before I really got into it. If you are looking for Fraser's trademark sex and violence, Flashman and the Mountain of Light does not disappoint. It just takes a little longer to get to. For the historians out there, Fraser covers the Sutlej Crisis and of course, the Mountain of Light or Koh-i-Noor, one of the largest diamonds in the world. ( )
  SeriousGrace | Nov 28, 2015 |
Oddly enough, I recall very little of this one, though I believe it explains how Flashman go the Koh-i-nur diamond and how Kipling got the idea for The Man Who Would Be King ( )
  antiquary | Feb 15, 2013 |
Arch-cad Flashman rogers his way around the Punjab. In the process he (rather reluctantly) saves India for John Company. ( )
  John5918 | Aug 31, 2012 |
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Three essential ingredients go to make up a Flashman plot. These are: a ravenous and fascinating heroine, a spine-chillingly sadistic villain and a historically based exotic or legendary figure... This mixture, enriched with lechery and treachery, makes a galloping read and culminates in the fourth great Fraser quality: a full-dress pitched battle. In this case two battles: the great engagements at Ferozeshah and Sobraon by which Britain became master of the Punjab. How Flashman or Fraser find time for the libido and its exercise among all this is more than I can fathom, but Victorian values have been overdue for revision and satire these many years.
tillagd av SnootyBaronet | ändraNewsday, Christopher Hitchens (Apr 10, 1991)
 

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You’ll have heard it said that the British Empire was acquired in a fit of absence of mind – one of those smart Oscarish squibs that sounds well but is thoroughly fat-headed. Presence of mind, if you like – and countless other things, such as greed and Christianity, decency and villainy, policy and lunacy, deep design and blind chance, pride and trade, blunder and curiosity, passion, ignorance, chivalry and expediency, honest pursuit of right, and determination to keep the bloody Frogs out.
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Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. The British Empire needs a man to satisfy insatiable lust and indulge in ungentlemanly acts - fortunately it has Harry Flashman. And with the mighty Sikh army poised to invade India, Flashman must go back into secret service and this time contend with the intrigues of the Court of Punjab.

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