The Hundred Days (Vol. Book 19) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Title | The Hundred Days (Vol. Book 19) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393088510 |
"One of the best novelists since Jane Austen....The Hundred Days may be the best installment yet....I give O'Brian's fans joy of it."—Philadelphia Inquirer Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering. They are inclined toward Napoleon because of his conversion to Islam during the Egyptian campaign, but they will not move without a shipment of gold ingots from Sheik Ibn Hazm which, according to British intelligence, is on its way via camel caravan to the coast of North Africa. It is this gold that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must at all costs intercept. The fate of Europe hinges on their desperate mission. "The Hundred Days is certain to delight O'Brian's fans, for whom happiness is an unending stream of Aubrey/Maturin books....[It] is a fine novel that stands proudly on the shelf with the others."—Los Angeles Times
The Hundred Days (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 19)
Title | The Hundred Days (Aubrey-Maturin, Book 19) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O’Brian |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011-12-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007429444 |
Napoleon has escaped from Elba – the Hundred Days have begun.
The Hundred Days
Title | The Hundred Days PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | 301 |
Release | 2008-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007275625 |
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All twenty books are being re-issued by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Title | Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2000-09-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393088502 |
"The old master has us again in the palm of his hand." —Los Angeles Times Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America—where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain—the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American expedition is a desperate affair; and in the end Jack's bold initiative to strike at the vastly superior Spanish fleet precipitates a spectacular naval action that will determine both Chile's fate and his own.
The Wine-Dark Sea (Vol. Book 16) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Title | The Wine-Dark Sea (Vol. Book 16) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 343 |
Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393063690 |
The sixteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series, and Patrick O'Brian's first bestseller in the United States. At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, and portends an underwater volcanic eruption that will create a new island overnight and leave an indelible impression on the reader's imagination. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of his failed coup, will flee for his life into the high, frozen wastes of the Andes; and Patrick O'Brian's brilliantly detailed narrative will reunite them at last in a breathtaking chase through stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.
The Commodore (Vol. Book 17) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
Title | The Commodore (Vol. Book 17) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2011-12-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393088480 |
The seventeenth novel in the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series of naval tales, which the New York Times Book Review has described as "the best historical novels ever written." Having survived a long and desperate adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England to very different circumstances. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, at least initially, but for Stephen it is disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or contact, while his wife, Diana, unable to bear this situation, has disappeared, her house being looked after by the widowed Clarissa Oakes. Much of The Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and in drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion that will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as a secret intelligence agent. The subtle interweaving of these disparate themes is an achievement of pure storytelling by one of our greatest living novelists.
Treason's Harbour
Title | Treason's Harbour PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780393037098 |
"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland