bookmate game
Patrick O’Brian

Master and Commander: Aubrey/Maturin series, book 1

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
The classic first novel of the epic Aubrey/Maturin series, widely considered “the best historical novels ever written” (Richard Snow, New York Times).

Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as commander: the fourteen-gun ship HMS Sophie. Meanwhile—after a heated first encounter that nearly comes to a duel—Aubrey and a brilliant but down-on-his-luck physician, Stephen Maturin, strike up an unlikely rapport. On a whim, Aubrey invites Maturin to join his crew as the Sophie’s surgeon. And so begins the legendary friendship that anchors this beloved saga set against the thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.

Through every ensuing adventure on which Aubrey and Maturin embark, from the witty parley of their lovers and enemies to the roar of broadsides as great ships close in battle around them, O’Brian “provides endlessly varying shocks and surprises—comic, grim, farcical and tragic.… [A] whole, solidly living world for the imagination to inhabit” (A. S. Byatt).
This book is currently unavailable
565 printed pages
Original publication
1990
Publication year
1990
Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Quotes

  • Анатолий Лапшинhas quoted8 years ago
    His voice was hoarse
  • Анатолий Лапшинhas quoted8 years ago
    But is the thing in itself really feasible
  • Анатолий Лапшинhas quoted8 years ago
    pulling his chin awry

On the bookshelves

fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)