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Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429448
Napoleon has escaped from Elba – the Hundred Days have begun.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088519
"One of the best novelists since Jane Austen....The Hundred Days may be the best installment yet....I give O'Brian's fans joy of it."—Philadelphia Inquirer Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. They are inclined toward Napoleon because of his conversion to Islam during the Egyptian campaign, but they will not move without a shipment of gold ingots from Sheik Ibn Hazm which, according to British intelligence, is on its way via camel caravan to the coast of North Africa. It is this gold that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must at all costs intercept. The fate of Europe hinges on their desperate mission. "The Hundred Days is certain to delight O'Brian's fans, for whom happiness is an unending stream of Aubrey/Maturin books....[It] is a fine novel that stands proudly on the shelf with the others."—Los Angeles Times
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088502
"The old master has us again in the palm of his hand."—Los Angeles Times (a Best Book of 1999) Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America—where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain—the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393312445
Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise are pursuing an American privateer through the Great South Sea.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088472
"[The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page....You're in for a wonderful voyage."—Cutler Durkee, People Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brian—or Stephen Maturin—could devise. In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin's Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088489
The seventeenth novel in the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series of naval tales, which the New York Times Book Review has described as "the best historical novels ever written." 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.
Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429073
Thrown out of the navy for a crime he did not commit, Jack Aubrey has lost everything he held most dear.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015060386987
Includes facsimile of the manuscript.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007255832
Set sail for the read of your life! Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429349
Whether close to home or far away, there are no safe harbours while Napoleon seeks to dominate the known world.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0001055313
The 19th Aubrey and Maturin novel by O'Brien, this story is set in the days succeeding Napoleon's escape from Elba, where Aubrey and Maturin are in the thick of Europe's attempt to prevent the French emperor from regaining his power.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393344417
The first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series. In the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson and his men encountered disaster, disease, and astonishing success. They circumnavigated the globe and seized a nearly incalcuable sum of Spanish gold and silver, but only one of the five ships survived. This is the background to the first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series that shares the excitement and rich humor of those books. The protagonist is Peter Palafox, son of a poor Irish parson, who signs on as a midshipman, never before having seen a ship. Together with his lifelong friend Sean, Peter sets out to seek his fortune, embarking upon a journey of danger, disappointment, foreign lands, and excitement. Here is a tale certain to please not only admirers of O'Brian's work but also any reader with an adventurous soul.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393088496
"A marvelously full-flavored, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." —Times Literary Supplement Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.
Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007429363
On Desolation Island, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged...
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393063820
The tenth installment in the beloved, epic Aubrey/Maturin series and inspiration for the major motion picture starring Russell Crowe. The War of 1812 continues, and Captain Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to wreak havoc with the British whaling trade. Meanwhile, Stephen Maturin has a mission of his own in the world of secret intelligence and comes face to face with the harsh realities for women of the age. Disaster in various guises awaits them in the Great South Sea and in the far reaches of the Pacific—typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, an ill-fated affair, murder, and criminal insanity—as well as a bold rescue by a crew of seafaring female warriors.