Master and Commander, H.M.S. Surprise, The Mauritus Command, The Fortune of War, The Surgeon's Mate, The Ionian Mission, Treason's Harbour, Clarissa Oakes

O' Brian, Patrick

ISBN 10: 000715786X / ISBN 13: 9780007157860

Published by Harper/Collins/Fontana, 2002

About this Item

Eight early volumes of the Aubrey/Maturin Novels. 1) Master and Commander: 403 pp. fine. 2) H.M.S. Surprise: 0006141811, Fontana, 1990 later printing, 379 pp., fine. 3) The Mauritus Command: 0006165745, Fontana, 1989 later printing, 348 pp., fine. 4) The Fortune of War: 0006159931, Fontana 1989 later printing, 329 pp., fine. 5) The Surgeon's Mate: 0006164110, Harper/Collins 1994 later printing, 382 pp., fine. 6) The Ionian Mission: Fontana 1982 later printing, 367 pp. fine. 7) Treason's Harbour: 0006168159, Fontana 1984 later printing, 334 pp. fine. 8) Clarissa Oakes: 0006472559, Harper/Collins 1994 1st printing, 256 pp. fon and date ffep, near fine. Books together weigh 3 lb.+ and may incur extra shipping costs, unless shipped within Canada. Bookseller's Inventory # 200614.

Seller Inventory # 000614

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Master and Commander, H.M.S. Surprise, The Mauritus Command, The Fortune of War, The Surgeon's Mate, The Ionian Mission, Treason's Harbour, Clarissa Oakes
• Publisher: Harper/Collins/Fontana
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000715786X
• ISBN 13: 9780007157860
• Binding: Card Covers
• Edition: 1st Edition Thus, 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine - Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jackets
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military/war
  • Historical Figures
  • Fiction

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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. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and an intelligence agent. It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be hoped for in a historical novel, but it also displays the qualities which have put O'Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea. O'Brian's portrayal of each of these is faultless and the sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation is above all masterly. This brilliant historical novel marked the debut of a writer who grew into one of our greatest novelists ever, the author of what Alan Judd, writing in the Sunday Times, has described as 'the most significant extended story since Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time'.

Review

The opening salvo of the Aubrey-Maturin epic, in which the surgeon introduces himself to the captain by driving an elbow into his ribs during a chamber-music recital. Fortunately for millions of readers, the two quickly make up. Then they commence one of the great literary voyages of our century, set against an immaculately-detailed backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. This is the place to start--and in all likelihood, you won't be able to stop.