- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; First American edition (31 Oct 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002712458
- ISBN-13: 978-0002712453
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.4 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 933,959 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Eighth memoir to be opened in the packets left behind by Sir Harry Flashman, the ardently oversexed, deplorable fraud and sham who has just received an undeserved knighthood and Victoria Cross for his service in Crimea and Afghanistan "by shirking, running, diving into cover, and shielding my quaking caracase behind better men. . ." Now 37, Harry is a colonel and a favorite with Queen and Consort, well spoken of by his chiefs, and married to a beauteous and wealthy heiress. Serving in Hong Kong, Flashy's very hungry for his darling, whom he hasn't seen in over three years, and so buries his hunger in various ladies, beginning with a clergyman's wife, a blue-eyed, golden-haired, pouting thing "shaped like an Indian nautchdancer." Lately, she's been very upset. During an uneasy truce between Britain and China, the opium trade has been legalized, and her missionary husband has just bought 2,000 chests of the best prepared black smoke on the market - but if the war returns, he won't be able to sell his cargo and build a church. She offers Flashy 1600 quid (and a shivering hint of physical delights) to deliver her ton of opium up the Pearl River to Canton. Many miles upriver - a journey richly described - Flashy discovers he's running not opium but the very latest, highly contraband repeating carbines. Soon he finds himself posted to Lord Elgin's intelligence staff and dead center in the Taiping Rebellion (the bloodiest civil war in history, with 30 million dead) and part of Elgin's march on Peking. High point of his adventure is his 14-days captivity in the Summer Palace of Pekin, where he becomes the pet poodle and bedmate of Yehonala, the incomparable Yi Concubine known as The Orchid and soon to be Empress of China, a creature of all-consuming vanity and legendary cruelty. But the barbaric Elgin (who has already stripped Greece of its greatest marbles) has the freed Flashy burn the Summer Palace, China's greatest repository of culture, which takes a week of burning for its complete destruction. With its exotic landscapes and mores, this is among the most ingratiating and intriguing of the ever-spicy and adventure-laden Flashman series. (Kirkus Reviews)
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A historical novel featuring Flashman, from the author of BLACK AJAX and FLASHMAN AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD. Behind his Victoria Cross, Harry Flashman is a base coward and charlatan. Unfortunately, people take him at face value. And he takes them, for all he can, while China seethes through the bloodiest civil war in history.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
One of the best of the series, Flashman and the Dragon combines the usual sublime writing with a particularly fascinating, and not too-well known, military campaign. If you want to learn something new about Victorian history without realising you are making the effort there is no better way.
Highly recommended, and if you liked any of the other Flashman's you will be safe buying this book
Highly recommended, and if you liked any of the other Flashman's you will be safe buying this book
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I found this story interesting because I learnt quite a lot about the Chinese history. An era I had never known much about.
Toby Stephens is a remarkable reader and so amusing with the female voices, very clever indeed.
Also his ability to alter voice tones and dialects is amazing.
The author is one whose books I have never read and will seek them out in the local library.A naughty hero if ever there was one!
Toby Stephens is a remarkable reader and so amusing with the female voices, very clever indeed.
Also his ability to alter voice tones and dialects is amazing.
The author is one whose books I have never read and will seek them out in the local library.A naughty hero if ever there was one!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Yes, once again Flashy finds himself in the thick of things - a Chinese Civil War! GMF combines well-researched historical fact - stranger than a lot of fiction - with the tale of the ever-reluctant Colonel Flashman, who beds and connives his way through the Imperial and rebel courts and battlefields of China in 1860. From the very first sentence, when Flashman warns the reader that the time to beware of a pretty woman is not when you're flush, but broke - because what is she after, then? - you just know he is ging to be cajoled/ordered/kidnapped into another daring adventure... and you're not disappointed. Buy this book - and the whole series, if you can!
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Delighthful, Old chap
I have come on here to stubbornly insist on giving this Flashman adventure five stars. Last week I talked to four Flashman fans who all agreed this was one of the weakest... Read more
Published 5 months ago by oldschoolstoryhunter.calm
Brilliant!
The more I read the Flashman series the more impressed I get and the more I wonder at the fact that George MacDonald Fraser didn't get a knighthood and an honorary degree for... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mieczyslaw Kasprzyk
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For a long time people had expounded the brilliance of the flashman and the books are damn fine to read, i don't think it needs me or anyone else to write a review saying about the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Parm
All Flashman books are equally good reading
I have read all of the Flashman books and keep them as a collection. GMF's other books are also very good reading.
Published 23 months ago by Neil Farquharson
The Empire strikes back
Rolling back to an almost even keel after the disappointing 'Lady' and disturbing 'Redskins', 'Dragon' takes Flashman to the mid nineteenth century standoff between the two great... Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2009 by C. Young
Flashman conquers China
No sense in wasting any of your time: this is yet another great book in the incomparable Flashman-series.
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Published on 21 Mar 2007 by Didier
The Empire Cometh
Only one country to date can say that they have placed and held military troops within the forbidden city, and that is the British. Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2005 by "jarjar114"
History is perfect, but not Flashman at his best
As a brief synopsis of the European experience in China, this is perfect. Mr MacDonald Fraser has clearly got a penchant for the 'Orient' and lavishes his time and trouble on... Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2000 by stilicho.vandal@virginnet.co.uk
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