Patrick O'Brian: A Life RevealedOpen Road Media, 20. 3. 2012 - Počet stran: 414 DIVA revealing and insightful look at one of the modern world’s most acclaimed historical novelists/div DIVPatrick O’Brian was well into his seventies when the world fell in love with his greatest creation: the maritime adventures of Royal Navy Captain Jack Aubrey and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin. But despite his fame, little detail was available about the life of the reclusive author, whose mysterious past King uncovers in this groundbreaking biography./divDIV /divDIVKing traces O’Brian’s personal history, beginning as a London-born Protestant named Richard Patrick Russ, to his tortured relationship with his first wife and child, to his emergence from World War II with the entirely new identity under which he would publish twenty volumes in the Aubrey–Maturin series. What King unearths is a life no less thrilling than the seafaring world of O’Brian’s imagination./div |
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Walden 19141922 | |
The Pen Mightier than the Pain 19231930 | |
RED 4 Beasts Royal 19301934 | |
Master and Commander 19671969 | |
An Epic Is Launched 19701973 | |
Becoming Picasso 19731976 | |
DEEP BLUE 17 At Sea Again 19761978 | |
Writing with Stunsails Aloft and Alow 19781984 | |
Singing of Sir Joseph 19851986 | |
Sailing in the Trade Winds 19871990 | |
GOLD 21 The Best Writer You Never Heard Of? 19901992 | |
Catching Lightning in a Jar 19341939 | |
Blood Sweat Toil and Tears 19401943 | |
An Irishman Is Born 19431946 | |
SLATE 8 The Last Approach to the Mansion of Pluto 19461947 | |
Moelwyn Bank 19481949 | |
AZURE 10 The Last Stronghold of Poets and Painters 19491953 | |
The Catalans 19531955 | |
Voyaging with Commodore Anson 19551959 | |
Temple and Beauvoir 19601966 | |
The Wages of Fame 19931994 | |
The Commodores Second Triumphal Tour 19951996 | |
A Night of Honor October 11 1996 | |
Epilogue | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Acknowledgments | |
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