Treason’s Harbour - Softcover

O’Brian, Patrick

 
9780007255917: Treason’s Harbour
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0007255918 ISBN 13: 9780007255917
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.

Uniquely among authors of naval fiction, Patrick O’Brian allows his characters to develop with experience. The Jack Aubrey of Treason’s Harbour has a record of successes equal to that of the most brilliant of Nelson’s band of brothers, and he is no less formidable or decisive in action or strategy. But he is wiser, kinder, gentler too.

Much of the plot of Treason’s Harbour depends on intelligence and counter-intelligence, a field in which Aubrey’s friend Stephen Maturin excels. Through him we get a clearer insight into the life and habits of the sea officers of Nelson’s time than we would ever obtain seeing things through their own eyes. There is plenty of action and excitement in this novel, but it is the atmosphere of a Malta crowded with senior officers waiting for news of what the French are up to, and wondering whether the war will end before their turn comes for prize money and for fame, that is here so freshly and vividly conveyed.

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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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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0007255918
ISBN 13 
9780007255917
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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