Robert Messenger takes stock of a remarkable literary achievement with W. W. Norton’s release of Patrick O’Brian’s Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels including the unfinished twenty-first. It has never ...
The Ledger: Patrick O'Brian, author of Aubrey-Maturin seafaring novels, dies at 85
In the first scene of Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander, Jack Aubrey meets Stephen Maturin at a concert. The two are destined to become lifelong friends, so naturally they hate one another ...
Patrick O’Brian, author of a wildly successful series of sea novels centered on Capt. Jack Aubrey of the British navy and his friend, Stephen Maturin, died earlier this month in Dublin at the age of ...
Never read anything by Patrick O’Brian? Here’s a primer on the master and commander of the 20 novels about Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. He died Jan. 2, 2000, in Dublin, but though he liked to be ...
I have mixed feelings about Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, the Peter Weir flick based on the 10th of the 20 "Aubrey/Maturin" novels written by Patrick O'Brian. Taken by itself, ...
Charles Darwin as Dr. Stephen Maturin–the complicated and highly skilled Irish-Spanish surgeon-spy of Patrick O’Brian’s famous Aubrey/Maturin series of seafaring novels? Probably not: The 22-year-old ...
This stand-alone adventure novel from O'Brian (1914–2000) saw British publication in 1954, before the Aubrey/Maturin historicals that made his name. In the years before WWII, the teenage Derrick, ...
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, directed by Peter Weir, screenplay by Weir and John Collee, based on the novels by Patrick O’Brian The first impression of Peter Weir’s film Master and ...