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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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- Publication History
- Literary Significance and Criticism
- Adaptations
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Further Reading
Patrick O'Brian's The Golden Ocean (1956) and The Unknown Shore (1959) both depict fictional pairs of young men, loosely based on real seamen, who participate in George Anson's voyage around the world. In these two novels, O'Brian began to develop the models for the characters of Aubrey and Maturin as well as the storytelling techniques used in the...
Novels in order of first publication
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) – (The Truelovein the US) 16. The Wine-Dark Sea(1993) 17...
Internal chronology
O'Brian's books were written and published in the same chronological sequence as the events they describe, beginning with Master and Commander, set in 1800, and carrying through to the final novel, set in late 1815 after the Battle of Waterloo. However, they do not strictly follow history. The first six books quickly move through twelve years of the Napoleonic Wars, as established by frequent reference to historical events, with The Fortune of War ending on 1 June 1813 with the battle between...
The series focuses on two main characters, naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician, naturalist, and spy Stephen Maturin, and the ongoing plot is structured around Aubrey's ascent from lieutenant to rear admiral in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionaryand Napoleonic Wars. Jack Aubrey is a large man (both literally and figuratively) with an ...
The stories are primarily told in the third person from the points of view of the two main characters, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The author sometimes employs a form of first-person narrative when his characters write in private journals or letters about events that are not otherwise described. The narrative point of view strays from the two ...
Master and Commander was first published in 1969, in the US by Lippincott, and in Great Britain and Ireland by Collins in 1970. The series continued to be a modest success in both countries, though publication was only by Collins in the UK after the fourth novel. Publication in the US ceased with Desolation Island in 1978. However, in 1989 Starling...
O'Brian is sometimes compared to Jane Austen, C. S. Forester and other British authors central to the English literature canon. Though sometimes compared to Trollope, Melville, Conrad and even Proust, the Aubrey–Maturin series has most often been compared to the works of Jane Austen, one of O'Brian's greatest inspirations in English literature. In ...
BBC Radio
In 1995, Master and Commander was dramatised in six parts, with Michael Troughton and Nigel Anthony. The Mauritius Command, Desolation Island, HMS Surprise and The Fortune of War were all subsequently adapted between 2008 and 2018. All starred David Robb as Aubrey and Richard Dillaneas Maturin.
Film
The Aubrey-Maturin series formed the basis for the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Maturin. The primary plot of the movie is based on that of The Far Side of the World(the 10th book of the series) while other events and characters are adapted from other novels in the series. The film was a critical success but has not yet spawned a sequel despite the sentiments of critics, fans of the mov...
Ramage, first of a series of novels about Lord Ramage, an officer in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, written by Dudley PopeBrown, Anthony Gary (2006). The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book: Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey–Maturin Sea Novels. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-2482-6.Brunvand, Jan Harold (January 2004). "The Early Bird is Worth Two in the Bush: Captain Jack Aubrey's Fractured Proverbs". In Lau, Kimberly J.; Tokofsky, Peter; Winick, Stephen D. (eds.). What Goes...Cunningham, A. E., ed. (1994). Patrick O'Brian: A Bibliography and Critical Appreciation. Boston Spa: British Library. ISBN 0-7123-1071-1.King, Dean (2000). Patrick O'Brian:A Life. MacMillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-5977-9.Lavery, Brian (2003). Jack Aubrey Commands: An Historical Companion to the Naval World of Patrick O'Brian. Conway Maritime. ISBN 0-85177-946-8.O'Neill, Richard (2003). Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World. Running Press. ISBN 0-7624-1540-1.Miller, David (2003). The World of Jack Aubrey: Twelve-Pounders, Frigates, Cutlasses, and Insignia of His Majesty's Royal Navy. Running Press Book Publishers. ISBN 0-7624-1652-1.Grossman, Anne Chotzinoff; Thomas, Lisa Grossman (2000). Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels. W W Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-32094-4.Patrick O'Brian CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan ...
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 ...
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Complete order of Patrick O’Brian books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Master and Commander is a nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in the UK. The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel Aubrey–Maturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, on which O'Brian continued working until his death in 2000.
Patrick O'Brian's beloved series of 19th-century British naval fiction. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1), Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2),...
