Patrick O'Brian (1914–2000)
Autor/a de Capità de mar i de guerra
Sobre l'autor
Patrick O'Brian is the author of twenty volumes in the highly respected Aubrey/Maturin series of novels. (Publisher Provided) Patrick O'Brien was born in Ireland in 1914. His education included the Sorbonne. O'Brian has produced a variety of works, including biographies of Picasso and Sir Joseph mostra'n més Banks and translations of the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir, but he is best known for the creation of an unlikely pair of Napoleonic War-era heroes in the Aubrey-Maturin Series. British naval officer Jack Aubrey and Irish scholar and physician Stephen Maturin have been featured in more than a novels published in Great Britain (five of which have also appeared in America). He died on January 2, 2000. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) The principal author here is Patrick O'Brian famous for the Aubrey-Maturin novels. The birth name of this author was Richard Patrick Russ. He changed his name by deed poll in August 1945 to Patrick O'Brian, under which name his books were published.
Sèrie
Obres de Patrick O'Brian
William Christenberry 13 exemplars
The last pool and other stories 3 exemplars
BOTTINO DI GUERRA 2 exemplars
19 Book Set: The Aubrey Maturin Series - Master and Commander, Post Captain, HMS Surprise, The Mauritius Command,… (1980) 2 exemplars
TRES MANOS EN LA FUENTE (IX) Bolsillo 2 exemplars
Les aventures de Jack Aubrey : Coffret en 5 volumes : Tomes 1 à 5 : Avec Les navires de Jack Aubrey (2006) 2 exemplars
Daily Live in the Time of Jesus 1 exemplars
The walker, and other stories 1 exemplars
Three bear witness 1 exemplars
Testimonies 1 exemplars
Blue at the mizzen 1 exemplars
Rüzgarin Süvarisi 1 exemplars
Die Inseln der Paschas 1 exemplars
Misin en Jonia 1 exemplars
El Puerto De La Traicin 1 exemplars
La Costa Ms Lejana Del Mundo 1 exemplars
Los Cien DAs 1 exemplars
MUŠKÁT ÚTĚCHY 1 exemplars
The Aubrey/Maturin Novels, Vol. 1-10 1 exemplars
A Life Revealed 1 exemplars
. Buckinghamshire, 12/12/1914-Dublin 2/1/2000 1 exemplars
Set of 4 Aubrey/Maturin Novels: Blue at the Mizzen, The Hundred Days, The Yellow Admiral, and the Commodore (1999) 1 exemplars
The Aubrey/Maturin Novels, Vol. 10-17 1 exemplars
Patrick O'Brian Collection: "HMS "Surprise"", "The Commodore", "The Far Side of the World" v. 1 (2002) 1 exemplars
O butim da guerra 1 exemplars
Whispers 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Mammoth Book of Men O'War: Stories from the Glory Days of Sail (1999) — Col·laborador — 88 exemplars
Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure, and Survival (Adrenaline) (2001) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
High Seas: Stories of Battle and Adventure From the Age of Sail (2002) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Van Der Valk, Series 1-5 [1972-1992] — Screenwriter — 7 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- O'Brian, Patrick
- Altres noms
- Russ, Richard Patrick (birth)
- Data de naixement
- 1914-12-12
- Data de defunció
- 2000-01-02
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Collioure, France
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- England, UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Dublin, Ireland
- Llocs de residència
- Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Collioure, France
Cwm Croesor, Wales, UK - Professions
- translator
novelist - Relacions
- Jones, Elizabeth (first wife)
Tolstoy, Mary (second wife)
Tolstoy, Nikolai (stepson) - Premis i honors
- The Heywood Hill Literary Prize (1995)
Order of the British Empire (Officer ∙ 1997)
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Trinity College Dublin (1997) - Nota de desambiguació
- The principal author here is Patrick O'Brian famous for the Aubrey-Maturin novels. The birth name of this author was Richard Patrick Russ. He changed his name by deed poll in August 1945 to Patrick O'Brian, under which name his books were published.
Membres
Converses
Ampersand Studio - Master and Commander a Fine Press Forum (octubre 24)
Purchased the first nine volumes of Patrick O'Brian's Master & Commander. However... a Folio Society Devotees (setembre 2022)
Phantom duplicate ISBN a Bug Collectors (juny 2021)
New pair of Aubrey - Maturin due a Folio Society Devotees (agost 2011)
***Group Read: H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian a 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (abril 2011)
Folio Society Aubrey/Maturin Series a HMS Surprise (juliol 2010)
Ressenyes
3 1/2 stars. I know I am preaching to the choir but Goodreads really needs 1/2 stars. This was not a 4 star for me but it wasn't a 3 star either. Well written with a great ending. I would recomend to anyone that likes nautical adventures.
I've seldom read a book less inclined to offer the reader assistance to an unfamiliar setting. Oh sure, we're given some nautical basics through the landlubber's perspective of Maturin, the surgeon and naturalist, but if you haven't been at sea you will need a dictionary at the ready, and one with archaic terms at that, to properly follow along. Thankfully the book opens up as you gradually learn to tell your larboard from starboard and though detailed down to uniforms, knots and nautical references, the action is brisk and the story pulls you along with it.
Be aware that you've set your course for 20 of these novels by opening the first.… (més)
Be aware that you've set your course for 20 of these novels by opening the first.… (més)
Llistes
Books Read in 2018 (20)
Booker Prize (1)
Favourite Books (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Best Spy Fiction (1)
Mamet's Ear (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 119
- També de
- 22
- Membres
- 68,457
- Popularitat
- #195
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 927
- ISBN
- 1,543
- Llengües
- 19
- Preferit
- 369
- Quant a
- 3
- Pedres de toc
- 953
It is certainly a steep learning curve as the author makes no concessions to readers' ignorance of naval terminology and practice of the period. There were definitely times when I had no idea what was going on. it certainly throws into relief how much other authors play down the strangeness of the past.