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Aubrey/Maturin Novels Ser.: The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian (1996, Trade Paperback)

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The Commodore (Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 17) (Book 17). O""Brian, Patrick. Internal SKU: Q09S-00286.

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Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes. Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent. The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393314596
ISBN-13
9780393314595
eBay Product ID (ePID)
131559

Product Key Features

Book Title
Commodore
Author
Patrick O'Brian
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Action & Adventure, Sea Stories, Historical
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9.7 Oz

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Series Volume Number
17
Lc Classification Number
Pr6029.B55c66 1995
Reviews
I fell in love with his writing straightaway, at first with Master and Commander. It wasn't primarily the Nelson and Napoleonic period, more the human relationships. ...And of course having characters isolated in the middle of the goddamn sea gives more scope. ...It's about friendship, camaraderie. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin always remind me a bit of Mick and me., O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should have been on those lists of the greatest novels of the 20th century., The Aubrey-Maturin series... far beyond any episodic chronicle, ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of character and the human heart., [O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. It will outlive most of today's putative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as Mark Twain has outlived Charles Reade., The best historical novels ever written... On every page Mr. O'Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important of all historical lessons: that times change but people don't, that the griefs and follies and victories of the men and women who were here before us are in fact the maps of our own lives., I Devoured Patrick O'brian's 20-Volume Masterpiece As IF It HAD Been So Many Tots of Jamaica Grog., I haven't read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O'Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn't stop., [O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the RoyalNavy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. It will outlive most of today'sputative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as MarkTwain has outlived Charles Reade, It has been something of a shock to find myself--an inveterate reader of girl books--obsessed with Patrick O'Brian's Napoleonic-era historical novels... What keeps me hooked are the evolving relationships between Jack and Stephen and the women they love., The Commodore is so satisfying...because it is crowded with so many different kinds of pleasures. O'Brian's genius is in his ability to arrange all this material upon the well-constructed frame of an adventure plot....A lyric poet working in the epic form.
Copyright Date
1994
Lccn
95-002653
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Aubrey/Maturin Novels Ser.
Dewey Edition
20

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4 out of 5 stars
by irgm7eertso@del...Mar 06, 2007
My first ebay purchase
I enjoy adventure type stories and Patrick O'Brian is very good at creating action. His detail about the ships, the jobs of the sailors and life on board ship all go to making these books highly enjoyable. I also like the dialect and word usage that seems to take the reader back to the time when sailing full rigged ships of the line could be a career leading to fame and fortune as well as a life of danger and excitement. Each of the stories about the ship's captain and his friend and fellow sailor gives a bit more information about each. Dr. Maturin's drug use and complicated personal life and the complexities of the personality of Jack Aubrey. I try to read another of the books every couple of months.
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by browningdoubleNov 09, 2021
Great book
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by 6718blankOct 16, 2022
The Commodore by Patrick O'Brien
This is just another of Patrick O'Brien"s outstanding books in the Aubrey/Maturin series.
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by rek-4403Aug 09, 2021
One of the series.
Book marked up - a lot. Condition should have been only fair.
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by speaxx_ezJul 04, 2017
Great Read
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Aubrey/Maturin Novels Ser.: The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian (1996, Trade Paperback)

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