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Patrick O'Brian CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen ...
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels —20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent.
Patrick O’Brian was born on 12th of December in the year 1914 in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England. He died on second of January 2000. His birth name was Richard Patrick Russ. He wrote several novels in his lifetime including the famous Aubrey-Maturin series.
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- Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
- Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
- H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
- The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
- Master and Commander. by Patrick O'Brian. 4.07 · 57427 Ratings · 4160 Reviews · published 1969 · 174 editions. Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubr…
- Post Captain. by Patrick O'Brian. 4.26 · 22627 Ratings · 1254 Reviews · published 1972 · 130 editions. “If Jane Austen had written rousing sea yarns, she…
- H.M.S. Surprise. by Patrick O'Brian. 4.42 · 19204 Ratings · 883 Reviews · published 1973 · 124 editions. In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aub…
- The Mauritius Command. by Patrick O'Brian. 4.35 · 16531 Ratings · 665 Reviews · published 1977 · 105 editions. Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without …
Jan 1, 2001 · A series of historical novels set in the Napoleonic Wars, featuring the friendship between naval officer Jack Aubrey and physician Stephen Maturin. The books are available in five omnibus volumes, and one of them was adapted into a film starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany.
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Jan 2, 2000 · The Booker Library. Authors. Patrick O'Brian. Patrick O’Brian is best known for the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels, acclaimed by Richard Snow in The New York Times as ‘the best historical novels ever written’. O’Brian was also the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso.
