In spite of his numerous character flaws, Flashman is represented as being a perceptive observer of his times (“I saw further than most in some ways” In its obituary of George MacDonald Fraser,The Economistcommented that realistic sharp-sightedness (“if not much else”) was an attribute F...
Leaves rolled along the brown mud. As I watched the current, I recalled using Google Earth to locate the creek of my boyhood, and finding it, or what was left of it, as I looked down from a virtual sky. Now something heavy and frantic burst through the tangle of vines. A fleeting...
Richard J. Brown, 1923-2005: home building loses an icon.(death of founder of Cambridge Homes Inc.)(Brief Article)(Obituary)Mariani, Michele
Tom Brown is energetic, stubborn, kind-hearted and athletic, rather than intellectual. He follows his feelings and the unwritten rules of the boys. The early chapters of the novel deal with his childhood at his home in the Vale of White Horse. Much of the scene setting in the first chapte...