Pyrates: A Swashbuckling Comic Novel By The Creator Of Flashman

by George Fraser

Overview

In THE PYRATES, the author of the celebrated Flashman novels pays tongue-in-cheek homage to the swashbuckling books and movies that have always stirred his imagination. In these rollicking pages you'll find tall ships and desert islands; impossibly gallant adventurers and glamorous heroines; devilishly sinister cads and ghastly dungeons; improbably acrobatic duels and hair's-breadth escapes; and more plot twists than you can shake a rapier at. A deliriously entertaining combination of Errol Flynn action-adventure and Naked Gun pastiche, in a new package geared to the legions of Flashman fanatics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762774319
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	227,187
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

George MacDonald Fraser was the writer of many novels, short stories, memoirs, other volumes of nonfiction, and screenplays — including co-writing credit for the James Bond film Octopussy. Among his most popular works are the Flashman Papers, a series of novels about the arch-rogue Harry Flashman, a hero who galloped, swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through many of the signal events of the 19th century. His other books include several non-Flashman novels, among them Mr. American; The Pyrates; Black Ajax; and The Reavers. For his work, Mr. Fraser received many honors, among them the Order of the British Empire in 1999. He died in 2008.

Editorial Reviews

"The most wonderfully idiotic love song to swashbucklers ever set to Korngold trumpets. Fraser again proves himself a master." —New York Times "An unfathomable delight." —New Yorker "Fabulous. .. You'll want to stay up all night reading this one." —Washington Post"It's all there, right down to a Dead Man's Chest, cleavages that are everything they should be and characters in sea-boots who say nothing but 'Arr!' and 'Me hearty!' in a plot that is wonderfully absurd." —Financial Times "Fraser can easily juggle Conan Doyle and Holmes, Fleming and Bond, Wodehouse and Wooster, and Chandler and Marlowe." —Vanity Fair

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