Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin #04: Mauritius Command, The

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin #04: Mauritius Command, The
Patrick O'Brian
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5 Jan 2021 US
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9780393541618
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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half-pay without a command -- until his friend, and occasional intelligence agent, Stephen Maturin, arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope, under a Commodore's pennant. But the difficulties of carrying out his orders are compounded by two of his own captains -- Lord Clonfert, a pleasure-seeking dilettante, and Captain Corbett, whose severity can push his crews to the verge of mutiny. Based on the actual campaign of 1810 in the Indian Ocean, O'Brian's attention to detail of eighteenth-century life ashore and at sea is meticulous. This tale is as beautifully written and as gripping as any in the series; it also stands on its own as a superlative work of fiction.

#01: Master and Commander
#02: Post Captain
#03: HMS Surprise
#04: Mauritius Command, The
#05: Desolation Island
#05: Desolation Island (CD)
#06: Fortune of War, The
#06: Fortune of War, The (CD)
#07: Surgeon's Mate, The
#08: Ionian Mission, The
#08: Ionian Mission, The (CD)
#09: Treason's Harbour
#10: Far Side of the World, The
#11: Reverse of the Medal, The
#12: Letter of Marque, The
#13: Thirteen-Gun Salute, The
#14: Nutmeg of Consolation, The
#15: Clariss Oakes
#16: Wine-Dark Sea, The
#17: Commodore, The
#18: Yellow Admiral, The
#19: Hundred Days, The
#20: Blue at the Mizzen
#21: Final, Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey, The

'...full of the energy that comes from a writer having struck a vein... Patrick O'Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.' James Hamilton- Paterson 'You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O'Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him.' Kevin Myers, Irish Times 'Patrick O'Brian has written splendid novels -- of which The Mauritius Command is the latest -- recounting episodes in the lives of the naval officer Jack Aubrey and his friend the saturnine Irish physician, Stephen Maturin... Taken together, the novels are a brilliant achievement. They display staggering erudition on almost all aspects of early nineteenth-century life, with impeccable period detail. [Compared to Bush and Hornblower] Aubrey and Maturin are subtler, richer items; in addition, Patrick O'Brian has a gift for the comic which Forester lacks.' T.J. Binyon, Times Literary Supplement 'O'Brian has a monumental knowledge of Naval history of the time. Nothing is glamorised. The press gangings, the floggings, the squalor are all here. But here, too, are heroism and humour.' Mark Kahn, Sunday Mirror 'The Mauritius Command is outstanding' Observer
Patrick O'Brian, one of our greatest contemporary novelists, is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. His first novel, Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories were recently republished by HarperCollins. In 1995, he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime's contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. In 1997 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Trinity College, Dublin. He died in January 2000 at the age of 85.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780393541618
Published: 5 Jan 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Width: 140mm
Pages: 368

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