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Patrick O'Brian (Chalfont St Peter, 12 de dezembro de 1914 - Dublin, 2 de janeiro de 2000; nome de batismo Richard Patrick Russ) foi um escritor e tradutor inglês, mais conhecido pela sua série Aubrey-Maturin sobre a Marinha Real Britânica durante as guerras Napoleônicas e centrada na amizade entre o capitão Jack Aubrey e o ...
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Childhood, early career and marriages
O'Brian was christened as Richard Patrick Russ, in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, a son of Charles Russ, an English physician of German descent, and Jessie Russ (née Goddard), an English woman of Irish descent.[citation needed] The eighth of nine children, O'Brian lost his mother at the age of four, and his biographers describe a fairly isolated childhood, limited by poverty, with sporadic schooling, at St Marylebone Grammar School from 1924 to 1926, while living in Putney, and then at L...
Sailing experience
As background to his later sea-going novels, O'Brian did claim to have had limited experience on a square-rigged sailing vessel, as described within his previously-quoted 1994 essay: However, in 1995, venture capitalist Thomas Perkins offered O'Brian a two-week cruise aboard his then sailing yacht, a 154-foot (47 m) ketch. In an article about the experience written after O'Brian's death, Perkins commented that "... his knowledge of the practical aspects of sailing seemed, amazingly, almost ni...
Life after the Second World War
Between 1946 and 1949 the O'Brians lived in Cwm Croesor, a remote valley in north Wales, where they initially rented a cottage from Clough Williams-Ellis. O'Brian pursued his interest in natural history; he fished, went birdwatching, and followed the local hunt. During this time they lived on Mary O'Brian's small income and the limited earnings from O'Brian's writings. In 1949 O'Brian and Mary moved to Collioure, a Catalan town in southern France. He and Mary remained together in Collioure un...
He continued to work on his naval novels until his death and spent the winter of 1998–1999 at Trinity College Dublin. He died there on 2 January 2000. His body was returned to Collioure, where he is buried next to his wife. The "Amis de Patrick O'Brian" association, which is located in Collioure, was bequeathed O'Brien's desk and various of his wri...
As Patrick Russ
O'Brian published two novels, a collection of stories and several uncollected stories under his original name, Richard Patrick Russ. His first novel, Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard, was written at the age of 12 and published three years later in 1930. It was a critical success, with a recommendation in the New Statesman and positive reviews in publications including the New York Herald Tribune and the Saturday Review of Literature.: 50 Other stories followed, published in boys' mag...
As Patrick O'Brian
O'Brian returned to writing after the war when he moved to rural Wales. His non-fiction anthology A Book of Voyages (1947) attracted little attention. A collection of short stories, The Last Pool, was published in 1950 and was more widely and favourably reviewed, although sales were low.: 151–151 The countryside and people around his village in Wales provided inspiration for many of his short stories of the period, and also his novel Testimonies (1952), which is set in a thinly disguised Cwm...
Aubrey–Maturin series
Beginning in 1969, O'Brian began writing what turned into the 20-volume Aubrey–Maturin series of novels. The books are set in the early 19th century and describe the lives and careers of Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his friend, naval physician and naturalist Dr Stephen Maturin, a man of Irish and Catalan parents. The books are distinguished by O'Brian's deliberate use and adaptation of actual historical events, either integrating his protagonists in the action without changing th...
O'Brian claimed that he wrote "like a Christian, with ink and quill"; Mary was his first reader and typed his manuscripts "pretty" for the publisher. O'Brian handwrote all his books and stories, shunning both typewriter and word processor. The handwritten manuscripts for 18 Aubrey-Maturin novels have been acquired by the Lilly Library at Indiana Un...
Aubrey–Maturin series
1. Master and Commander(1969) 2. Post Captain(1972) 3. HMS Surprise(1973) 4. The Mauritius Command(1977) 5. Desolation Island(1978) 6. The Fortune of War(1979) 7. The Surgeon's Mate(1980) 8. The Ionian Mission(1981) 9. Treason's Harbour(1983) 10. The Far Side of the World(1984) 11. The Reverse of the Medal(1986) 12. The Letter of Marque(1988) 13. The Thirteen-Gun Salute(1989) 14. The Nutmeg of Consolation(1991) 15. Clarissa Oakes (1992) (published as The Truelovein the US) 16. The Wine-Dark S...
Fiction
1. Caesar (1930, his first book, which led him to be often labelled by critics as the 'boy-Thoreau') 2. Hussein, An Entertainment(1938) 3. Testimonies (1952) (Three Bear Witnessin the UK) 4. The Catalans (1953) (The Frozen Flamein the UK) 5. The Road to Samarcand(1954) 6. The Golden Ocean(1956) 7. The Unknown Shore(1959) 8. Richard Temple(1962)
Short story collections
1. Beasts Royal(1934) 2. The Last Pool and Other Stories(1950) 3. The Walker and Other Stories(1955) 4. Lying in the Sun and Other Stories(1956) 5. The Chian Wine and Other Stories(1974) 6. Collected Short Stories (1994) (The Rendezvous and Other Storiesin the US) 7. The Complete Short Stories(2023)
Since O'Brian's death, two biographies have been published, though the first was well advanced when he died. The second is by O'Brian's stepson Nikolai Tolstoy. Dean King's Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealedwas the first biography to document O'Brian's early life under his original name. Tolstoy's two-volume biography, Patrick O'Brian: The Making of ...
C. S. Forester (1899–1966), author of the Horatio HornblowernovelsKing, Dean (2000). Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-792558.King, Dean H (2001). In Search of Patrick O'Brian. Holt (Henry) & Co, US. ISBN 0-8050-5977-6.(US edition of the above book)Tolstoy, Nikolai (2004). Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist. London: Century. ISBN 0-7126-7025-4.Tolstoy, Nikolai (2005). Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist 1914–1949. W W Norton & Co Ltd. ISBN 0-393-06130-2.(US edition of the above book)Becker, Stephen (1995). "Patrick O'Brian, The Art of Fiction No. 142". The Paris Review. Summer 1995 (135).Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project – A Google Maps mashup project to map all 21 books in the Aubrey–Maturin series.The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and ...
2 de jan. de 2000 · Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of historical novels has been described as "a masterpiece" (David Mamet, New York Times), "addictively readable" (Patrick T. Reardon, Chicago Tribune), and "the best historical novels ever written" (Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review), which "should have been on those lists of ...
Complete order of Patrick O’Brian books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000), nascido Richard Patrick Russ, ficou conhecido por ser recluso e evitar expor sua vida. Na 2ª Grande Guerra, foi agente da inteligência e, casado morou no País de Gales, após no sul da França, e faleceu Dublin em 2000, aos 85 anos.
Patrick O'Brian's beloved series of 19th-century British naval fiction. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1), Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2),...
