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Synopsis
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the second book in the series. Patrick O'Brian is regarded by many as the greatest historical novelist now writing. Post Captain, the second novel in his remarkable Aubrey/Maturin series, led Mary Renault to write: 'Master and Commander raised dangerously high expectations; Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them.' This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Aubrey's adventures in escaping from France and the debtors' prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea.
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About the Author
Patrick O'Brian, until his death in 2000, was one of our greatest contemporary novelists. He is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey--Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. He is the author of many other books including Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime's contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He lived for many years in South West France and he died in Dublin in January 2000.
From the Back Cover
"It has been said that this series is some of the finest historical fiction of our time . . . . Aubrey and Maturin have been described as better than Holmes and Watson, the equal of Quixote and Panza . . . . All this is true.
And the marvel is, it hardly says enough."
-Los Angeles Times
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3 Cassettes, 4 1/2 hours
Read by Robert Hardy
Abridged
Audio contains the sails of a square-rigged ship illustration.
The 2nd installment in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series
"The best historical novels ever written..."
-The New York Times Book Review
"They're funny, they're exciting, they're informative. There are legions of us who gladly ship out time and time again under Captain Aubrey."
-The New Yorker
Post Captain is the second novel in Patrick O'Brian's beloved adventure series. In 1803 Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, Royal Navy, taking refuge in France from his creditors, is interned. He escapes from France, from debtors' prison, from a possible mutiny, and pursues his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held-harbor. Stephen Maturin's struggles, with himself as much as with a proud and intelligent woman, are woven into Aubrey's, straining their friendship at times to the breaking point.
Reviews
This series follows the careers of Aubrey, a Royal Navy officer, and Maturin, a naval surgeon, during the Napoleonic Wars. POST CAPTAIN covers the ups and downs of both men's lives and careers as they deal with debt, women, promotion and demotion and, finally, a command for Aubrey. British actor Robert Hardy is superb in reading this abridgment. He gives each character consistent and believable accents, bringing out the character of each. He is just as adroit when performing non-British accents and the wonderful narrative sections. Period music is used as a transition between episodes. All in all, this is a fine listening experience. M.T.F. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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POST CAPTAIN.
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LIPPINCOTT. PHILADELPHIA 1972, 1972
ISBN 10: 039700804X
ISBN 13: 9780397008049
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POST CAPTAIN.
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LIPPINCOTT. PHILADELPHIA 1972, 1972
ISBN 10: 039700804X
ISBN 13: 9780397008049
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, Second Printing. This is a near fine, unmarked, hardcover first edition, second printing copy in blue cloth binding with gold spine lettering. In a mylar protected DJ that is price clipped, black spine. Seller Inventory # 057738
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second Printing. Fine in a Fine, unclipped ($7.95), faintly rubbed and bumped. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The second novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Seller Inventory # 13671
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Condition: GOOD. First US printing. The second in the naval series featuring Jack Aubrey. 414 pp. Ex-library, with a missing front endpaper, but no other markings, in sturdy library binding, and a price-clipped, but overall very good dustjacket (small peeled spot on front cover of dj - 2 purplish lines on back cover of dj from glue from dj protector.) Despite the flaws, this is a very attractive and readable copy of a hard to find book. Seller Inventory # 55985
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gordon Johnson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardback. First Edition, First Printing (1972). NF/VG minus. The $7.95 price is intact. Slight scuff mark on front board. Book corners are square. Slight color fade on edge of top and bottom of the spine. Script on spine is complete and fully gold. Dust Jacket has slight shelf rub on corners and very short closed tear on the top front edge. The spine of the Jacket has shelf wear on the top and bottom, creases which run down each side, breaking the color, and a stain which originated on the inside of the spine and partially impacts the "C" in Captain on the outside of the cover and slightly impacts the book spine as a small, very light brown color. Finally, there is a small, faint brown stain at the top of the back of the DJ, which does not impact the copy on that cover. Seller Inventory # ABE-1793392952346
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. Very good copy in good only dust jacket. (Interior clear tape mends to jacket. Slim lightly discernible clear tape mends at spine ends on jacket. Couple cloth corner tips mildly tapped. Edge tears & traces of light shelf soiling & foxing at edges of rear panel of jacket Pervasively mustry odor. ) SECOND Aubrey/Maturin novel. Seller Inventory # 305599