- Fiction, Naval History, Stephen Maturin (Fictitious character), Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character)
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Classical in form, cool, earnest and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick O'Brian, Graham Roberts
- First published
- October 2000
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Norton & Company Limited, W. W., HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786148622
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“A hundred and fifty-seven castaways on a desert island in the South China Sea, the survivors of the wreck of HMS Diane, which had struck upon an uncharted rock and had there been shattered by a great typhoon some days later: a hundred and fifty-seven, but as they sat there round the edge of a flat bare piece of ground between high-water mark and the beginning of the forest they sounded like the full complement of a ship of the line, for this was Sunday afternoon, and the starboard watch, headed by Captain Aubrey, was engaged in a cricket-match against the Marines, under their commanding officer, Mr Welby.”
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