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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “good condition with minor signs of wear on the cover”
- Brand
- Patrick O'Bryan
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 0393037606
- Era
- 1800s
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Vintage
- Yes
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393037606
ISBN-13
9780393037609
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127403460
Product Key Features
Book Title
Commodore
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1995
Topic
Historical, Sea Stories, Action & Adventure
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Aubrey/Maturin Novels Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.4 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
95-002653
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
[O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the RoyalNavy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a masterpiece. It will outlive most of today'sputative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as MarkTwain has outlived Charles Reade, 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., The Commodore is so satisfying...because it is crowded with so many different kinds of pleasures. O'Brian's genius is in his ability to arrange all this material upon the well-constructed frame of an adventure plot....A lyric poet working in the epic form.
Series Volume Number
17
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
The seventeenth novel in the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series of naval tales, which the New York Times Book Review has described as "the best historical novels ever written.", Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes. Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent. The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists., Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent. The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.
LC Classification Number
PR6029.B55C66 1995
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