Master and Commander by Patrick O'brian
This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
"You're in for a wonderful voyage" -- People
"O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best that we have." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"If there were seventeen more novels, I'd start today." -- Donald Graham - Wall Street Journal
"Patrick O'Brian can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time." -- Observer
"Taken as a whole, the Aubrey-Maturin novels are by a long shot the best things of their kind... they are uniquely excellent." -- Terry Teachout - New York Times Book Review
"The best historical novels ever written." -- Richard Snow - New York Times Book Review
"One does not get many pages into the Aubrey-Maturin sequence before falling under the spell of O'Brian's prose, which is... elegantly paced, quietly witty." -- Katherine A. Powers - Atlantic Monthly
"If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian." -- Time
"A world of enchanting fictional surfaces." -- John Bayley - New York Review of Books
"O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best that we have." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"If there were seventeen more novels, I'd start today." -- Donald Graham - Wall Street Journal
"Patrick O'Brian can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time." -- Observer
"Taken as a whole, the Aubrey-Maturin novels are by a long shot the best things of their kind... they are uniquely excellent." -- Terry Teachout - New York Times Book Review
"The best historical novels ever written." -- Richard Snow - New York Times Book Review
"One does not get many pages into the Aubrey-Maturin sequence before falling under the spell of O'Brian's prose, which is... elegantly paced, quietly witty." -- Katherine A. Powers - Atlantic Monthly
"If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian." -- Time
"A world of enchanting fictional surfaces." -- John Bayley - New York Review of Books
One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393325171 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393325172 |
| Title | Master and Commander |
| Author | Patrick O'brian |
| Series | Movie Tie-In Editions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2004-01-21 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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