- Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General, Fiction, Historical - General, Sea Stories
This is book 1 in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.
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Classical in form, earnest, meticulous and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Patrick O'Brian
- First published
- October 10, 2000
- Pages
- 412
- Publisher
- Collins, Random House Audio, Harper Collins Pb
- Editions
- 47
- Language
- Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9780006141822
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- Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General
- Fiction
- Historical - General
- Sea Stories
- Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
- Fiction, sea stories
- Aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction
- Maturin, stephen (fictitious character), fiction
- Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction
- Fiction, historical
- Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character)
- Stephen Maturin (Fictitious character)
“THE MUSIC-ROOM IN the Governor's House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant first movement of Locatelli's C major quartet.”
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