Name: The Commodore
SKU: 29814959
Price: 12.87 EUR
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Author: Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: 9780006499329

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Physical Book

Author

Patrick O'Brian

Publisher

Harper

ISBN

0006499325

ISBN13

9780006499329

The Commodore

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Synopsis "The Commodore"

Jack Aubreys long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore, and given a squadron of ships to command. His mission is twofold; to make a large dent in the slave trade off the coast of Africa and, on his return, to intercept a French fleet set for Bantry Bay with a cargo of weapons for the disaffected among the Irish. But might the nature of the secret mission on which the squadron is sent present a conflict of loyalties for the complicated and inscrutable figure of Stephen Maturin, Jack's indispensable ship's surgeon and close friend? Invention and surprise follow at every turn in this tale of nineteenth-century seamanship, as rich, as compelling, as masterly as any of its predecessors.

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Richard Patrick Russ, known as Patrick O'Brian, was a British writer and translator born in Buckinghamshire (not in Ireland, as he claimed) on December 12, 1914, and who died on January 2, 2000 in Dublin, Ireland

Son of a doctor of German origin and an Englishwoman of Irish descent, he was the eighth of a family of nine children. He published his first novel in 1930, when he was a teenager, but did not return to write this genre —although he did publish several stories, biographies, and children's books— until about forty years later, an American publisher suggested he write a work in the line of the late Cecil Scott Forrester, maintaining the genre of the "naval epic" that had made him famous

Following the editor's advice, O'Brian wrote the famous characters Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, who thrived in the environment of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Master and Commander, the first title in the series they starred in, led to the successful film adaptation Master and Commander, which featured Russell Crowe

O'Brian was an excellent translator of French, as evidenced by his translations of Papillon by Henri Charrière and several works by Simone de Beauvoir. A writer jealous of his private life, little was known about his life until the publication of his biography by his stepson, Nikolai Tolstoy.

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