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Aubrey/Maturin Novels Ser.: The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian (1997,...
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780393317046
- Book Title
- Yellow Admiral
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Action & Adventure, Sea Stories, Historical
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 8.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting as a Member of Parliament; he is feuding with his neighbor, a man with strong Navy connections who wants to enclose the common land between their estates; he is on even worse terms with his wife, Sophie, whose mother has ferreted out a most damaging trove of old personal letters. Even Jack's exploits at sea turn sour: in the storm waters off Brest he captures a French privateer laden with gold and ivory, but this at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out, and this feeds into Jack's private fears for his career. Fortunately, Jack is not left to his own devices. Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with the news that the Chileans, to secure their independence, require a navy, and the service of English officers. Jack is savoring this apparent reprieve for his career, as well as Sophie's forgiveness, when he receives an urgent dispatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393317048
ISBN-13
9780393317046
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1154896
Product Key Features
Book Title
Yellow Admiral
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Action & Adventure, Sea Stories, Historical
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
8.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
18
Lc Classification Number
Pr6029.B55y45 1996
Reviews
I fell in love with his writing straightaway, at first with Master and Commander. It wasn't primarily the Nelson and Napoleonic period, more the human relationships. ...And of course having characters isolated in the middle of the goddamn sea gives more scope. ...It's about friendship, camaraderie. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin always remind me a bit of Mick and me., The Aubrey-Maturin series... far beyond any episodic chronicle, ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of character and the human heart., [O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. It will outlive most of today's putative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as Mark Twain has outlived Charles Reade., The best historical novels ever written... On every page Mr. O'Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important of all historical lessons: that times change but people don't, that the griefs and follies and victories of the men and women who were here before us are in fact the maps of our own lives., Taken as a whole, the Aubrey/Maturin novels are by a long shot the best things of their kind, so much better than the competition that comparisons long ago ceased to be relevant: they are uniquely excellent., I Devoured Patrick O'brian's 20-Volume Masterpiece As IF It HAD Been So Many Tots of Jamaica Grog., I haven't read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O'Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn't stop., Starred Review. O'Brian is at the top of his elegant form here. He offers a wealth of sly humor . . . some sly set pieces . . . characters who are palpably real and, as always, lapidary prose. This is splendid storytelling from a true master., O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should have been on those lists of the greatest novels of the 20th century., The experience of reading O'Brian is that of gracious acceptance at one of the banquets of life's feast. . . . It's hard not to find him irresistible., The experience of reading O'Brian is that of gracious acceptance at one of the banquets of life's feast...It's hard not to find him irresistible., O'brian Is at the Top of His Elegant Form Here...This Is Splendid Storytelling from a True Master., It has been something of a shock to find myself--an inveterate reader of girl books--obsessed with Patrick O'Brian's Napoleonic-era historical novels... What keeps me hooked are the evolving relationships between Jack and Stephen and the women they love.
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
96-024149
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Aubrey/Maturin Novels Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
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