Master and Commander

Author(s): Patrick O'Brian

Historical

This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the road of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.

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[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. --David Mamet

General Fields

  • : 9780393307054
  • : W W Norton
  • : W W Norton
  • : 0.384
  • : October 1970
  • : 197mm X 134mm X 21mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Patrick O'Brian
  • : Paperback
  • : 823.914
  • : very good
  • : 412
  • : illustrations