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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 ...
Patrick O'Brian characters (5 P) Pages in category "Novels by Patrick O'Brian" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Novels by Patrick O'Brian (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Works by Patrick O'Brian" This category contains only the following page.
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.
Non-fiction books by british author Patrick O'Brian Pages in category "Books by Patrick O'Brian" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list ...
This is a list of recurring characters in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian.As is noted in the articles about each novel, some of these characters are based on real historical persons, while others are purely fictional.
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.
The Golden Ocean is a historical novel written by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1956. It tells the story of a novice midshipman, Peter Palafox, who joins George Anson's voyage around the world beginning in 1740. The story is written much in the language and spelling of the mid-18th century.