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Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian (1990, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393307050
ISBN-139780393307054
eBay Product ID (ePID)140240
Product Key Features
Book TitleMaster and Commander
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSea Stories, Historical, Action & Adventure
Publication Year1990
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorPatrick O'Brian
Book SeriesAubrey/Maturin Novels Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsTaken as a whole, the Aubrey-Maturin novels are by a long shot the best things of their kind...they are uniquely excellent., I prefer the Aubrey-Maturin series to all others, even Holmes-Watson. Every book is packed to absolute straining with erudition, wit, history, and thunderous action., If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she would have produced something very close to the prose of Patrick O'Brian., [The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page...you're in for a wonderful voyage., There are two types of people in the world: Patrick O'Brian fans, and people who haven't read him yet., One does not get many pages into the Aubrey-Maturin sequence before falling under the spell of O'Brian's prose, which is...elegantly paced, quietly witty., My hero is Patrick O'Brian...I read all of his books many, many times. I've read them so many times I can't read them anymore because eventually you know the whole book by heart., Certain authors we read because they enlarge us, because they offer experience, wisdom, beauty of language, a sense of fate and the only defense, a sense of humor...To compare Patrick O'Brian with 'writers of sea stories' is to compare Proust to the ?Orchard Fancier's Quarterly'. O'Brian is literature. I am one of your surly pragmatical polyglot landlubbers, and I read him and reread him with awe and gratitude. His Aubrey-Maturin volumes are in effect one great book, and if I could keep only a half a dozen contemporary writers, O'Brian would be one of them.
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisThe beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."--Sir Francis Chichester, This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.
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- 16 Dec, 2024
World Class Writing
This author has recreated that place and time with such compelling characters that I ended up reading the whole series of around 20 books. I loved going to sea every night before going to sleep. I rate Patrick O'Brian as highly as my other favorite authors - JRR Tolkien, Pat Conroy and Terry Pratchett.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 05 Sep, 2019
Let's take a voyage
From the first page this story is great, meeting Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin and the voyage they embark on the Sophie draws you in, I just started reading it and I am enjoying it, if you have never read Patrick O'Brian's novels, do so, you won't be disappointed.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 16 Jun, 2020
Excellent book the writing is superb very colorful And Timely.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 14 Sep, 2021
Good Read!
Best naval story I have read in along time! Will be getting the rest of the series.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 11 Aug, 2016
Book Purchase Evaluation...
Books are in excellent condition and are exactly as was advertised. I am very pleased with this purchase...Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 13 Aug, 2020
Loved
Wonderful story! Also purchase Lexicon to better enjoy the history of NavyVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 06 Jan, 2024
I bought six books I’m gonna try another one
It was very hard to follow, just didn’t make sense to meVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 10 May, 2020
Great Novel, almost new
Great Novel and compelling characters. I really enjoyed it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 11 Feb, 2018
Great Book
It's a great book and the first of a series.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 18 Jan, 2018
Best of the series.
It's your introduction to Captain Jack Aubrey and his adventures!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
