Overview

The recent release of the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World has focused even more attention on the publishing phenomenon of the late Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels about the Royal Navy in the age of Nelson. These five volumes, beautifully produced and boxed, contain over 7,000 pages of what has often been described as a single, continuous narrative. They are a perfect tribute to such a literary achievement, and a perfect gift for the serious O'Brian enthusiast.

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[O'Brian's novels] will outlive most of today's putative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as Mark Twain has outlived Charles Reade. -- David Mamet - New York Times Like John le Carre, [O'Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from `serious' fiction. O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have. -- Mark Horowitz - Los Angeles Times Book Review No writer alive can move one as O'Brian can. . . . He is the master. -- Kevin Myers - Irish Press

Like John le Carre, [O'Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debased genre from 'serious' fiction. O'Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the best we have. -- Mark Horowitz - Los Angeles Times Book Review No writer alive can move one as O'Brian can... He is the master. -- Kevin Myers - Irish Press [O'Brian's novels] will outlive most of today's putative literary gems as Sherlock Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as Mark Twain has outlived Charles Reade. -- David Mamet - New York Times

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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.

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