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Patrick O'Brian

    12 de diciembre de 1914 – 2 de enero de 2000

    Patrick O'Brian capta magistralmente el apasionante mundo de la Royal Navy durante las Guerras Napoleónicas a través de los ojos del oficial naval Jack Aubrey y su amigo, el médico y espía Stephen Maturin. Su extensa serie es celebrada por su realista cruda, su prosa intrincada y sus profundas perspectivas sobre la naturaleza humana y la amistad. La magistral narración de O'Brian sumerge a los lectores en el corazón del combate naval y las complejidades de las relaciones personales, estableciendo su obra como un pináculo de la ficción histórica. Los lectores pueden sumergirse en un mundo meticulosamente elaborado donde la historia, la aventura y la emoción humana se entrelazan con un poder notable.

    Patrick O'Brian
    Blue at the Mizzen
    The Commodore
    The Letter of Marque
    The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels: With the Unfinished Twenty-First Novel
    Capitán de mar y guerra
    Capitán de y Mar Guerra
    • Entre el cabo de Creus y Gibraltar, a comienzos del siglo XIX se suceden los combates de la Armada Inglesa contra navíos de vela que atraviesan el Mediterráneo, especialmente los franceses, en plena expansión napoleónica. La Shopie -corbeta un tanto rechoncha y desvencijada al servicio de su majestad-, con sus dos palos, doce cañones y una tripulación que deja bastante que desear, ha de escoltar a doce barcos mercantes. A bordo también se enfrentan distintas formas de afrontar la guerra y la vida en el mar. Mientras el capitán Jack Aubrey le mueve su ansia por conseguir botines, al cirujano Maturín le interesa la ciencia, y el impecable oficial Dillons lucha por honor.

      Capitán de y Mar Guerra
    • Cuando se escribe sobre la Armada real inglesa del siglo XVIII y comienzos del XIX es difícil no descuidar algun aspecto: es difícil tratar con entera justicia el tema elegido, puesto que la realidad, casi siempre inverosímil, supera a la ficción. Ni siquiera la imaginación más viva e ingeniosa podría crear la figura del comodoro Nelson saltando del Captain, navío armado con setenta y cuatro cañones, a la ventana de la galería del San Nicolás, de ochenta cañones, apresándolo y atravesando rápidamente su cubierta para abordar el enorme San José, de ciento doce cañones, de modo que 'en la cubierta de un navío español de primera clase, por extravagante que pueda parecer el relato, los españoles vencidos me entregaron sus sables; y los iba pasando a William Fearney, uno de mis lancheros, que con la mayor sang froid se los ponía bajo el brazo.

      Capitán de mar y guerra
    • Jack Aubrey, a former sea-officer in the British Navy and still bitter about his court-martial, agrees to take command of his old ship, the Surprise, which was sold to Dr. Stephen Maturin, who obtained a letter of marque to the use the ship as a privateer.

      The Letter of Marque
    • The Commodore

      • 281 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      Captain Jack Aubrey and secret agent Steven Maturin are in Her Majesty's Navy, disrupting slave traders in the Gulf of Guinea.

      The Commodore
    • "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.

      Blue at the Mizzen
    • Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. H.M.S. Surprise follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's career in Nelson's navy as he attempts to hold his ground against admirals, colleagues and the enemy, accepting a mission to convey a British ambassador to the East Indies. The voyage takes him and his friend Stephen Maturin to the strange sights and smells of the Indian sub-continent, and through the archipelago of spice islands where the French have a near-overwhelming superiority. Rarely has a novel managed to convey more vividly the fragility of a sailing ship in a wild sea. Rarely has a historical novelist combined action and lyricism of style in the way that O' Brian does. His superb sense of place, brilliant characterisation, and a vigour and joy of writing lift O'Brian above any but the most exalted of comparisons.

      H.M.S. Surprise
    • All Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage for the dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised. Maturin's cunning is the sole bulwark against sabotage of Aubrey's daring mission.

      Treasons's Harbour
    • The Fortune of War (Aubrey Maturin Series)

      • 355 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura
      4,4(11585)Añadir reseña

      Jack Aubrey, commander of the best-armed frigate in the Royal Navy, leaves the Dutch East Indies to return to England in a dispatch vessel, but the outbreak of the War of 1812 delays his journey and draws him into bloody battle

      The Fortune of War (Aubrey Maturin Series)