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"Patrick O'Brian, The Art of Fiction No. 142". The Paris Review. Summer 1995 (135). WikiPOBia – wiki to annotate the written works of Patrick O'Brian. Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project – A Google Maps mashup project to map all 21 books in the Aubrey–Maturin series. A Gunroom guide to Patrick O'Brian Web Resources – comprehensive annotated ...
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The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.
But O'Brian's books are as atypical of conventional sea stories as Conrad's. Like John le Carre, he has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from "serious" fiction. O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have. . . . These are contemporary novels, written, paradoxically, in an 18th-Century voice.
O'Brian dedicated the story to Armand Goëau-Brissoinnière, a French resistance leader who had been his colleague and friend during the war. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] He sent him a copy of his book The Last Pool , in which the story appears, along with a note hoping that the recipient would understand his description of the state of mind of a man who was ...
The Last Pool and Other Stories is a 1950 collection of short stories by the English author Patrick O'Brian. It was his first published book under that name (though he had published several works as a teenager under his birth name Patrick Russ). The thirteen stories are largely about rural experiences, focusing on hunting, shooting and fishing.