Post Captain (Aubrey-Maturin Series #2)

by Patrick O'Brian

Overview

"Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book." —Mary Renault

"We've beat them before and we'll beat them again." In 1803 Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., taking refuge in France from his creditors, is interned. He escapes from France, from debtors' prison, and from a possible mutiny, and pursues his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393307061
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	08/17/1990
Series:	Aubrey-Maturin Series , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	528
Sales rank:	68,168
Product dimensions:	8.28(w) x 5.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Date of Birth:

December 12, 1914

Date of Death:

January 2, 2000

Place of Birth:

Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire

Place of Death:

Dublin, Ireland

Education:

Shebbear College, Devon

Website:

http://www.wwnorton.com/pob/pobhome.htm

What People are Saying About This

Iris Murdoch

"Aubrey and Maturin compose one of the those complex and fascinating pairs of characters which have inspired thrilling stories of all kinds since the 'Iliad'." -- Iris Murdoch and John Bayley

Mary Renault

Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations… Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them… a brilliant book.

Keith Richards

I fell in love with his writing straightaway, at first with Master and Commander. It wasn’t primarily the Nelson and Napoleonic period, more the human relationships. …And of course having characters isolated in the middle of the goddamn sea gives more scope. …It’s about friendship, camaraderie. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin always remind me a bit of Mick and me.

A. S. Byatt

Gripping and vivid… a whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit.

Iris Murdoch and John Bayley

Aubrey and Maturin compose one of those complex and fascinating pairs of characters which have inspired thrilling stories of all kinds since the Iliad.

George Will

O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should have been on those lists of the greatest novels of the 20th century.

Editorial Reviews

"The best thing afloat since Horatio Hornblower."

Observer

"The best historical novels ever written."

New York Times

"Aubrey and Maturin compose one of those complex and fascinating pairs of characters which have inspired thrilling stories of all kinds since the Iliad."

Iris Murdoch and John Bayley

"They're funny, they're exciting, they're informative.... There are legions of us who would gladly ship out time and time again under Captain Aubrey."

The New Yorker

"The best historica novel ever written." -- New York Times

Richard Snow

One of the finest seafaring novels of the Napoleonic wars.

Taranaki Herald [New Zealand]

I haven’t read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O’Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn’t stop.

E. O. Wilson - Boston Globe