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Creator: | Patrick O'Brian |
| Language: | English | E-newsletter Yr: | 1996 |
| Layout: | Paperback | ISBN: |
9780393314595 |
| EAN: |
9780393314595 |
| Synopsis | |
| Having survived a prolonged and determined hotfoot within the Big South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very assorted circumstances. For Jack it is a fully satisfied homecoming, at the least initially, nonetheless for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be like to be to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, whereas his wife, Diana, unable to undergo this scenario, has disappeared, her dwelling being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes. Powerful of The Commodore takes position on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, nonetheless the shout of the colossal weapons is by no manner a long way from our listening to. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a weird decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave alternate. But their final destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that could test Aubrey’s seamanship and Maturin’s resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent. The refined interweaving of these disparate issues is an fulfillment of pure storytelling by one among our right living novelists. Powerful ofThe Commodore takes position on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, nonetheless the shout of the colossal weapons is by no manner a long way from our listening to. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a weird decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave alternate. But their final destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that could test Aubrey’s seamanship and Maturin’s resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent. The refined interweaving of these disparate issues is an fulfillment of pure storytelling by one among our right living novelists | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 0393314596 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780393314595 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 131559 |
| Key Information | |
| Creator | Patrick O’Brian |
| Quantity Of Pages | 352 pages |
| Series | Aubrey/Maturin Novels |
| Layout | Paperback |
| E-newsletter Date | 1996-04-17 |
| Language | English |
| Writer | Norton & Company, Integrated, W. W. |
| E-newsletter Yr | 1996 |
| Further Information | |
| Series Volume Quantity | 17 |
| Copyright Date | 1994 |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 9.6 Ounces19459027] |
| Height | 0.7 In. |
| Width | 5.5 In. |
| Length | 8.3 In. |
| Purpose Viewers | |
| Community | Exchange |
| Classification Plot | |
| LCCN | 95-002653 |
| LC Classification Quantity | PR6029.B55C66 1995 |
| Dewey Decimal | 823/.914 |
| Dewey Edition | 20 |
| Experiences | |
| “Engrossing and inviting… a total, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit.” “I devoured Patrick O’Brian’s 20-quantity masterpiece as if it had been so many kids of Jamaica grog.” “I fell in fancy along with his writing straightaway, at the initiating assign aside with Master and Commander. It wasn’t basically the Nelson and Napoleonic duration, more the human relationships. …And naturally having characters isolated within the heart of the goddamn sea affords more scope. …It be about friendship, camaraderie. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin incessantly take me back to the reality a piece Mick and me.” “I hold never learn novels [in the past ten years] moreover for the total Patrick O’Brian sequence. It was once, sadly, love tripping on heroin. I started on these books and couldn’t halt.” “It has been one thing of a shock to secure myself–an inveterate reader of girl books–hooked in to Patrick O’Brian’s Napoleonic-abilities historical novels… What retains me bent are the evolving relationships between Jack and Stephen and the females they fancy.” “Patrick O’Brian is definitely the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.” “The Aubrey-Maturin sequence… a long way previous any episodic yarn, ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of persona and the human coronary heart.” “The right historical novels ever written… On every web page Mr. O’Brian reminds us with refined artistry of an indispensable of all historical classes: that instances alternate nonetheless other folk make now no longer, that the griefs and follies and victories of the lads and females who had been right here before us are really the maps of our possess lives.” “There is now no longer a author alive whose work I fee over his.” Engrossing and inviting’Š a total, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit. Engrossing and inviting… a total, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit. It has been one thing of a shock to secure myself-an inveterate reader of girl books-hooked in to Patrick O’Brian’s Napoleonic-abilities historical novels’Š What retains me bent are the evolving relationships between Jack and Stephen and the females they fancy. O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin volumes actuallyconstitute a single 6,443-web page unique, one which must had been on these listsof the right novels of the twentieth century. The Aubrey-Maturin sequence’Š a long way previous any episodic yarn, ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of persona and the human coronary heart. The Aubrey-Maturin sequence… a long way previous any episodic yarn, ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of persona and the human coronary heart. The Commodore is so relaxing…since it is crowded with so many loads of varieties of pleasures. O’Brian’s genius is in his skill to rearrange all this discipline topic upon the nicely-constructed frame of an hotfoot predicament….A lyric poet working within the myth originate. The right historical novels ever written’Š On every web page Mr. O’Brian reminds us with refined artistry of an indispensable of all historical classes: that instances alternate nonetheless other folk make now no longer, that the griefs and follies and victories of the lads and females who had been right here before us are really the maps of our possess lives. The right historical novels ever written… On every web page Mr. O’Brian reminds us with refined artistry of an indispensable of all historical classes: that instances alternate nonetheless other folk make now no longer, that the griefs and follies and victories of the lads and females who had been right here before us are really the maps of our possess lives. [O’Brian’s] Aubrey-Maturin sequence, 20 novels ofthe Royal Navy within the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. This can even outlive mostof at present time’s putative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlivedBulwer-Lytton, as Designate Twain has outlived Charles Reade. | |
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