- Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character), Stephen Maturin (Fictitious character), Naval History, Fiction
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Classical in form, cool, earnest and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Patrick O'Brian
- First published
- November 1994
- Pages
- 382
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., Blackstone Audiobooks, Recorded Books LLC
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786181841
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- Jack Aubrey (Fictitious character)
- Stephen Maturin (Fictitious character)
- Naval History
- Fiction
- Fiction, historical
- Fiction, action & adventure
- Sea stories
- Aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction
- Maturin, stephen (fictitious character), fiction
- Great britain, fiction
- Fiction, historical, general
- History, Naval
“The long harbour of Halifax in Nova Scotia on a long, long summer's day, and two frigates gliding in on the tide of flood under their topsails alone: the first, since she had belonged to the United States navy until a few days before, wore the Stars and Stripes under a white ensign; the second showed no more than her own shabby colours, for she was HMS Shannon, the winner in that short and bloody action with the Chesapeake.”
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