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Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. The ingredients of a wonderfully powerful and dramatic O'Brian novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose have the majesty and terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an Antarctic storm in which Jack's ship, under-manned and out-gunned, is the quarry not the hunter.
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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.
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- ÉditeurW. W. Norton & Co.
- Date d'édition1995
- ISBN 10 0393037053
- ISBN 13 9780393037050
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Desolation Island: Book V: The Aubrey Maturin Novels: The Collected Uniform Norton Edition
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. Full page frontispiece w/ facing text key "The sails of a square-rigged ship" (illustrateur). Collected Uniform Norton Edition. MAJESTIC: TERRIFYING: THRILLING: NEW: Book V: Collected Uniform Norton Edition of the Aubrey-Maturin Novels: First Edition hardcover (Orig.1978: The Collected Uniform Norton Edition, November 1994) w/ no. line at "1" First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed mylar-protected gloss-laminated color "Uniform Norton Edition" jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $22.50 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf & w/ the distinctive "Uniform Norton Edition" butterscotch-cream spine w/ title panel at top & Roman-enumeration "V" & pub. logo below & w/ color illustrated front panel, NEW library-durable marine-blue linen wrapping spine & extending 1.88" onto front & back panels handsomely-covered in EXCELLENT pale-blue paper w/ author's initials PO'B blind-stamped at bottom-right of front panel & w/ titles elegantly gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE unmarked text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top-bottom edges & cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW durably-tight perfect binding, PRISTINE interior printed w handsome clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 5.86" x 8.50" x 1.24", 0.60 kg, 330 pp * ILLUSTRATION: Full page frontispiece w/ facing text key "The sails of a square-rigged ship" * ABOUT THE BOOK: "The relationship [between Aubrey & Maturin] is about the best thing afloat. For Conradian power of description & sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the out-gunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four." -Stephen Vaughan, Observer. Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey & his friend & surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia w/ a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful & dangerous spy, & a treacherous disease that decimates the crew. W/ a Dutch man-of-war to windward, the undermanned, out-gunned Leopard sails for her life into the freezing waters of the Antarctic, where, in mountain seas, the Dutchman closes. Here the ingredients of a powerful & dramatic novel are heightened by descriptive writing of rare quality. Nowhere in contemporary prose has the majesty & terror of the sea been more effectively rendered than in the thrilling chase through an antarctic storm in which Jack's ship, outmanned & outgunned, is the quarry not the hunter. * HIGHEST PRAISE FOR PATRICK O'BRIAN: "Taken together, the novels are a brilliant achievement. They display staggering erudition on almost all aspects of early 19th-ventury life, w/ impeccable period detail. [Compared to Forester's characters] Aubrey & Maturin are subtler, richer items; in addition Patrick O'Brian has a gift for the comic which Forester lacks." -T.J. Binyon, TLS "O'Brian is astonishingly good." -The Times, London. "The best historical novels ever written." -Richard Snow, NYT. "Aubrey & Maturin compose one of those complex & fascinating pairs of characters which have inspired thrilling stories of all kinds since the 'Iliad'." -John Bayley & Iris Murdoch. "O'Brian's sheer brilliance as a writer constantly dazzles & his power over the reader is unique. He is the master." -Kevin Myers, Irish Press * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: In addition to 21 volumes in the highly acclaimed Abrey-Maturin series, PATRICK O'BRIAN 's many novels include "Testimonies", "The Golden Ocean" & "The Unknown Shore". O'Brian also wrote acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso & Sir Joseph Banks & translated many works from the French, among them the novels & memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean Lacouture's biography of Charles DeGaulle. For many years he & his wife made their home in the south of France. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & to international destinations via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL at our posted rates. N° de réf. du vendeur 009770
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