Flashman in the Great Game showed in trying to complete his mission. At the end of the book he finds out that he is described - in the recently published book "Tom Brown's School Days" - as a bully and a coward. Flashman in the Great Game Flashman in the Great Game is a 1975 novel by George MacDonald Fraser. It is the fifth of the Flashman novels. Presented within the frame of the supposedly discovered historical Flashman Papers, this book describes the bully Flashman from "Tom Brown's School Days". The papers are attributed to Flashman, who is not only the bully featured in Thomas
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is really Jenny Jones, Tom's supposed mother, and Tom fears that he has committed incest. However, this is not the case, as Tom's mother is in fact Bridget Allworthy, who conceived him after an affair with a schoolmaster. Tom is thus Squire Allworthy's nephew. After finding out about the intrigues of Blifil, who is Tom's half-brother, Allworthy decides to bestow most of his inheritance on Tom. After Tom's true parentage is revealed he and Sophia marry, as Squire Western no longer harbours any misgivings about Tom marrying his daughter. Sophia bears Tom a son and a daughter, and the couple