The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
Aubrey-Maturin
Aubrey–Maturin series #21Patrick O'Brian
ISBN: | 9780007360352 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Published: | 5 April, 2010 |
Format: | Digital Audiobook |
Language: | English |
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- 1 Master And Commander
- 1 Master and Commander
- 2 Post Captain
- 3 HMS Surprise
- 4 The Mauritius Command
- 5 Desolation Island
- 6 The Fortune of War
- 7 The Surgeon's Mate
- 8 The Ionian Mission
- 9 Treason's Harbour
- 10 The Far Side of the World
- 11 The Reverse of the Medal
- 12 The Letter of Marque
- 13 The Thirteen-Gun Salute
- 14 The Nutmeg of Consolation
- 15 Clarissa Oakes
- 16 The Wine-Dark Sea
- 17 The Commodore
- 18 The Yellow Admiral
- 19 The Hundred Days
- 20 Blue at the Mizzen
- 21 The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
- The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
- The Surgeon’s Mate: Aubrey/Maturin series, book 7
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
Aubrey-Maturin
Aubrey–Maturin series #21Patrick O'Brian
At the time of his death, Patrick O'Brian had begun to write a novel to follow on from Blue at the Mizzen. These are the chapters he had completed of the final voyage that have been recorded for the audiobook of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin -- the greatest friendship of modern literature The story picks up from the end of Blue at the Mizzen when Jack Aubrey receives the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. This new novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of O'Brian's death, would have been a chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. As the novel opens, we are able to visit these friends we have followed so very far in a rare state of almost perfect felicity. Jack has seen his illegitimate son ably discharging important duties. Sophie and his daughters are with him; Brigid is with her father, she's thriving, and Stephen is with a woman who is very dear to him. Jack, at last, is flying a rear-admiral's flag aboard a ship of the line.The chapters left on O'Brian's death are presented here both in printed version -- including his corrections to the typescript -- and a facsimilie of his manuscript, which goes several pages beyond the end of the typescript and includes marginal notes by O'Brian. And so this great 'roman fleuve' comes to an end with Jack, with his 'sacred blue flag', sailing through fair, sweet days -- Stephen with his dissections and new love, Killick muttering darkly over the toasted cheese! Of course, we would rather have had the whole story; instead we have this proof that O'Brian's powers of observation, his humour and his understanding of his characters were undiminished to the end. 'There is nothing in this century that rivals Patrick O'Brian's achievement in his chosen genre. His novels embrace with loving clarity the full richness of the 18th-century world. They embody the cruelty of battle, the comedy of men's lives, the uncertain fears that plague their hearts; and yet, not far away, is the vision of an ideal existence.' Amanda Foreman, New York Times
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