- Fiction, historical, Maturin, stephen (fictitious character), fiction, Great britain, fiction, Aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All twenty books are being re-issued by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
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Classical in form, earnest, cool and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick O'Brian
- First published
- December 2000
- Pages
- 265
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., Blackstone Audiobooks, HarperCollins.
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780753158265
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“Sir Joseph Blaine, a heavy, yellow-faced man in a suit of grey clothes and a flannel waistcoat, walked down St James's Street, across the park, and so to the Admiralty, which he entered from behind, opening the private door with a key and making his way to the large, shabby room in which he had his official being.”
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