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Master and Commander (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

By Patrick O'Brian

Master and Commander (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

By Patrick O'Brian

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Tie-in edition to the major film coming next Spring from Fox. Starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind) as Stephen Maturin. Directed by Peter Weir. 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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
696
Release Date:
1999-11-01
Publication Date:
1999-11-01
Publisher:
Thorndike Pr
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0786219327
Weight:
739 g
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