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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.
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.
Articles relating to the Aubrey-Maturin series, a series of historical novels by British author Patrick O'Brian and its adaptations. Pages in category "Aubrey–Maturin series" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Although written many years before the Aubrey–Maturin series, the two naval novels reveal literary antecedents of Aubrey and Maturin. In The Golden Ocean and The Unknown Shore, based on events of George Anson's voyage around the world from 1740 to 1744, they can be clearly seen in the characters of Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow in the latter ...
Master and Commander is a nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in the UK.The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel Aubrey–Maturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, on which O'Brian continued working until his death in 2000.
See also Recurring characters in the Aubrey–Maturin series. Jack Aubrey: Captain of HMS Surprise. Stephen Maturin: ship's surgeon, friend to Jack, natural philosopher and an intelligence officer. Sophia Aubrey (née Williams): wife of Jack and mother of their three children. She was introduced in Post Captain.
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The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey is the unfinished twenty-first historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in its incomplete form in 2004. It appeared in the United States of America under the title of 21.