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作       者:George MacDonald Fraser

出  版  社:Harper

出版时间:2012-06-28

字       数:42.4万

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In the spirit of Flashman and in the inimitable George MacDonald Fraser style comes a rousing story of prize fighting in the 19th century. When Captain Buck Flashman sees the black boxer catch a fly in mid-flight he realizes that he is in the presence of speed such as the prize ring has never seen. Tom Molineaux may be crude and untutored, but if ‘Mad Buck’ knows anything, this ex-slave is a Champion in the making. Under his ambitious patronage, the ‘Black Ajax’ is carried on a popular tide of sporting fever to his great dream: to fight the invincible, undefeated Champion of England, the great Tom Cribb. Told through funny, colourful voices, this novel paints a portrait of a flawed hero who surmounted the barriers of ignorance, poverty and racial hatred to bring the prize ring a lustre it had never known before, and may never again.
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CONTENTS

PROLOGUE Galway, Ireland, 1818

THE WITNESSES

THOMAS (“PADDINGTON”) JONES, retired pugilist and former lightweight champion of England

LUCIEN-MARIE D’ESTREES DE LA GUISE, gentleman of leisure, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

SEÑORA MARGUERITE ROSSIGNOL, lady of fashion and independent means, Havana

CAPTAIN BUCKLEY (“MAD BUCK”) FLASHMAN, late of the 23rd Light Dragoons

WILLIAM HAZLITT, essayist, critic, and journalist

BILL RICHMOND, former slave, retired pugilist, inn-keeper, manager and fight promoter

TOM CRIBB, former heavyweight Champion of England, retired publican

JOHN DOE, alias Richard Roe, footman to Belinda, Lady Manners, wife of Sir John Manners, Bt

BOB LOGIC, Esq., student, sportsman, and former pupil of Tonbridge School, Kent

HENRY DOWNES MILES, editor of Pugilistica and PIERCE EGAN, author of Boxiana

WILLIAM CROCKFORD, fishmonger and gambler, founder of Crockford’s gaming club

His Royal Highness GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, Prince of Wales, later KING GEORGE IV

TOM MOLINEAUX, pugilist

BOB GREGSON, championship contender, publican, poet, and match-maker

Captain ROBERT BARCLAY ALLARDICE, late 23rd Foot, pedestrian, landowner, and agriculturalist

PIERCE EGAN, resumed

HENRY DOWNES MILES and PIERCE EGAN, resumed

PADDINGTON JONES, concluded

PIERCE EGAN, concluded

BILL RICHMOND, concluded

EPILOGUE

GLOSSARY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PRAISE

OTHER WORKS

COPYRIGHT

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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