MASTER AND COMMANDER / PATRICK O'BRIAN

Título : MASTER AND COMMANDER Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: PATRICK O'BRIAN, Autor Editorial: N.Y. : NORTON Fecha de publicación: 1970 Número de páginas: 411 PP ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-393-30705-4 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: FICTION HISTORICAL Resumen: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and an intelligence agent. It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be hoped for in a historical novel, but it also displays the qualities which have put O'Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea. O'Brian's portrayal of each of these is faultless and the sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation is above all masterly. This brilliant historical novel marked the debut of a writer who grew into one of our greatest novelists ever, the author of what Alan Judd, writing in the Sunday Times, has described as 'the most significant extended story since Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time'.

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THE IONIAN MISSION / PATRICK O'BRIAN

Título : THE IONIAN MISSION Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: PATRICK O'BRIAN, Autor Editorial: N.Y. : NORTON Fecha de publicación: 1970 Número de páginas: 367 PP ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-393-30821-1 Idioma : Inglés (eng) Palabras clave: FICTION HISTORICAL Resumen: Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy's blockade of Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate actions of his early days. A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands, where all his old skills of seamanship and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds come triumphantly into their own.

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