The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels: With the Unfinished Twenty-First Novel Hardback - 2004
by Patrick O'Brian
These five volumes are a perfect gift for the serious O'Brian enthusiast. Now, four years after O'Brian's death, his estate has agreed to release the chapters of the novel he was working on when he died. It is both fitting and moving that in these pages we are given a glimpse of Jack Aubrey raising his admiral's flag at last.
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Readers widely hail Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin saga as a towering, character-driven historical epic—often described as a single, continuous novel—celebrated for its elegant, period-authentic prose, meticulous research, and immersive evocation of life at sea. The enduring friendship between Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin is singled out as the series’ emotional anchor, combining humor, music, and moral complexity with thrilling naval action and natural history. Many report rereading the entire cycle multiple times, calling it both exhilarating and deeply comforting. Some caution that the nautical jargon and archaic diction create a steep learning curve and note occasional repetition in later volumes, but even detractors acknowledge the series’ ambition and craft.
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- Title The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels: With the Unfinished Twenty-First Novel
- Author Patrick O'Brian
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 6576
- Volumes 5
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Publication date 2004-10
- ISBN 9780393060119 / 039306011X
- Weight 9.22 lbs (4.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.5 x 8.3 in (21.84 x 13.97 x 21.08 cm)
- Category Fiction - Historical
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - History, Naval - 19th century, Ship captains
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004010770
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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