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 live on happily with the blessings of Squire Western and Squire Allworthy. The main theme of the novel is the contrast between Tom Jones's good nature, flawed but eventually corrected by his love for virtuous Sophia Western, and his half-brother Blifil's hypocrisy. Secondary themes include several other examples of virtue (especially that of Squire Allworthy), hypocrisy (especially that of Thwackum) and villainy (for example, that of Mrs Western and Ensign Northerton), sometimes tempered by repentance (for instance Square and Mrs Waters "née" Jones). Both introductory chapters to each book and interspersed commentary introduce a long line of further themes. For