The Commodore (Vol. Book 17) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

The Commodore (Vol. Book 17) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011-12-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393088480

The seventeenth novel in the sweeping 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.

Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393088502

"The old master has us again in the palm of his hand." —Los Angeles Times Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America—where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain—the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.

Clarissa Oakes

Clarissa Oakes
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2008
Genre: Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780007275588

As Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies he soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of the ship. What he doesn't know is that there is a potentially dangerous stranger aboard ship.

The Mauritius Command

The Mauritius Command
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393037043

Stephen Maturin brings Captain Jack Aubrey secret orders to lead an expedition against the French islands of Mauritius and La Reunion, but the conduct of two of his own officers threatens the success of the mission.

The Nutmeg of Consolation

The Nutmeg of Consolation
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007275579

The fourteenth novel in the classic Aubrey-Maturin series finds Aubrey and Maturin shipwrecked, harassed by pirates and then in the brutal penal colonies of New South Wales.

The Surgeon's Mate

The Surgeon's Mate
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393037074

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows is as thrilling and unexpected as anything O'Brian has written. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Fortune of War

The Fortune of War
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393037067

Aubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.

Master and Commander

Master and Commander
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007255837

Set sail for the read of your life! Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.