Flashman series

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Discussed as the series of novels that takes the bully Flashman from Tom Brown's School Days and makes him the hero. Tom mentions he had read Flashman but not Tom Brown's School Days, and had assumed from Flashman that Tom Brown would be a 'terrible wuss,' which turned out not to be the case.

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Extensively discussed as having excellent narrative voice capturing Victorian cad, praised for ambiguous treatment of empire