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Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are to be re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets.
Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel. But the war of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen’s past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.
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‘...full of the energy that comes from a writer having struck a vein... Patrick O’Brian is unquestionably the Homer of the Napoleonic wars.’
James Hamilton-Paterson
‘You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O’Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him.’
Kevin Myers, Irish Times
‘Patrick O’Brian writes as brilliantly as ever. The Fortune of War is a marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship’s longboat.’
T.J. Binyon, Times Literary Supplement
‘No one else writing in the genre today can match his erudition, humour, inventiveness and flair. With his marvellous grasp of contemporary idiom and of the feeling of the period, he brings to the stories a power and authenticity that can never fail to captivate.’
Kevin Myers, Irish Sunday Independent
‘Beautifully written, this is a book to read again and again, as so many of its predecessors have been.’
Yorkshire Post
‘Captain Aubrey and his surgeon, Stephen Maturin, compose one of those complex and fascinating pairs of characters which have inspired thrilling stories of all kinds since the Iliad.’
Iris Murdoch
Another Aubrey-Maturin tale, widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0002224984
- ISBN 13 9780002224987
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket after The National Maritime Museum (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some lean, some old tape marks to endpapers, not price clipped (£5.50), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 280pp. Britain and America are newly at war, and Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are caught in the very thick of the action. En route to England and his next command, Captain Jack Aubrey, and his friend, ship's surgeon and secret agent Stephen Maturin, find themselves swept up in the War of 1812. As Aubrey convalesces from his wounds in a Boston hospital, awaiting the next prisoner exchange, Maturin's past activities as a spy return to haunt him and precipitate both men into new and unexpected dangers. One of the best accounts of the heroic battle between the Shannon and the Chesapeake ever written. A scarce book. Seller Inventory # 011414
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