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The Commodore

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Informationen zum Autor One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies , The Golden Ocean , The Unknown Shore , and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso. Klappentext Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes. Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent. The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.

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Authors P. O'Brian, Patrick O'Brian
Publisher Norton and Co Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 24.08.1995
 
EAN 9780393037609
ISBN 978-0-393-03760-9
Dimensions 150 mm x 215 mm x 27 mm
Series Aubrey/Maturin Novels
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

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