Patrick O Brian: 104 books

Per Jack Aubrey, capitano di fregata della Royal Navy nei primissimi anni dell'Ottocento, al tempo in cui l'Europa è travolta dal turbine di Napoleone, la vera dimensione della vita è sul mare, tra rande, scotte, fiocchi, controvelacci e controvelaccini. Lo sa bene anche il suo amico Stephen Maturin,...

"One of the best novelists since Jane Austen....The Hundred Days may be the best installment yet....I give O'Brian's fans joy of it."—Philadelphia Inquirer Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians...

"O'Brian is one author who can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time, and The Ionian Mission is another rattling good yarn." —Stephen Vaughan, The Observer Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first...

"An overwhelming, outstanding novel...!"—Irish Times Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government...

Non mancano certo d’iniziativa, quei due. Stiamo parlando, naturalmente, di Jack Aubrey e dell’inseparabile amico Stephen Maturin che, lasciata l’isola della Desolazione dopo aver provveduto a far riparare la chiglia della Leopard, uscita malconcia dall’incontro troppo ravvicinato con un iceberg...

Il malumore non si addice a uno spirito gioviale come quello di Jack Aubrey, comandante della Surprise, salpata dalla colonia britannica del Nuovo Galles del Sud con una missione che dovrebbe portarla nelle isole della Polinesia. Certo, i motivi d’irritazione per lui non mancano: Stephen Maturin,...

Da questo libro è tratto il film Master & Commander - Sfida ai confini del mare vincitore di due premi Oscar Jack Aubrey ha una fretta del diavolo: non c’è un minuto da perdere. Questa volta, partendo da Gibilterra con la sua fedele Surprise, deve lanciarsi all’inseguimento della fregata...

The beginning of the sweeping Aubrey-Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."—Sir Francis Chichester This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence...

"Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book." —Mary Renault "We've beat them before and we'll beat them again." In 1803 Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., taking refuge in...

"Fine stuff...[The Letter of Marque] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old...

"The old master has us again in the palm of his hand."—Los Angeles Times (a Best Book of 1999) Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects...

"A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat."—Times Literary Supplement Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the...

"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four."—Stephen...

The seventeenth novel in the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series of naval tales, which the New York Times Book Review has described as "the best historical novels ever written." Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return...