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The Yellow Admiral Patrick O'Brian

The Yellow Admiral von Patrick O'Brian

The Yellow Admiral Patrick O'Brian

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Zusammenfassung

Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in this sequel to "The Commodore". Aubrey is now an impoverished landowner and has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his voting as a Member of Parliament. His exploits at sea turn sour and, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out.

The Yellow Admiral Zusammenfassung

The Yellow Admiral Patrick O'Brian

'You are in for the treat of your lives. Thank God for Patrick O'Brian: his genius illuminates the literature of the English language, and lightens the lives of those who read him.' Kevin Myers, Irish Times The Yellow Admiral -- the eighteenth novel in the sequence hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written -- sets the fall and rise of Jack Aubrey in brilliant counterpoint to the fall and rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey. Even Jack's exploits at sea turn sour in the storm waters off Brest. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814 peace breaks out. But Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with news that the Chileans require the service of English officers. Jack is savouring this reprieve for his career when he receives an urgent despatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.

The Yellow Admiral Bewertungen

'If O'Brian's novels have become a cult, this is because they are truly addictive... They are, quite magnificently, adventure yarns whose superb authenticity never distracts from the sheer thrill of the action.' Caroline Moore, Sunday Telegraph 'This is no mere sea story. It is history as it must have felt... Take up these books and you will share their dangers, taste their food and wine, tremble through their terrible battles, and understand for the first time the exacting and harsh nature of life in the Napoleonic era... Perhaps best of all is O'Brian's mastery of the English language. He plays it like an orchestra, somehow bringing the rich, powerful speech of the period back to life.' Peter Hitchens, Daily Express

Über Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian, one of our greatest contemporary novelists, is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey--Maturin tales and the biographer of Joseph Banks and Picasso. His first novel, Testimonies, and his Collected Short Stories have recently been republished by HarperCollins. In 1995 he was the first recipient of the Heywood Hill Prize for a lifetime's contribution to literature. In the same year he was awarded the CBE. He lives in the South of France.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR001277780
9780002255615
0002255618
The Yellow Admiral Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
HarperCollins Publishers
1999-04-06
282
Winner of Heywood Hill Literary Prize 1995
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