The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey Maturin Series) - Softcover

O'Brian, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393317048 ISBN 13: 9780393317046

Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 1997

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If there were 17 more novels, I'd start today.--Donald Graham

The experience of reading O'Brian is that of gracious acceptance at one of the banquets of life's feast. . . . It's hard not to find him irresistible.

There is not a writer alive whose work I value over his.--Stephen Becker

Starred Review. O'Brian is at the top of his elegant form here. He offers a wealth of sly humor . . . some sly set pieces . . . characters who are palpably real and, as always, lapidary prose. This is splendid storytelling from a true master.

Aubrey and Maturin are the most enjoyable literary companions since Holmes and Watson.

Taken as a whole, the Aubrey/Maturin novels are by a long shot the best things of their kind, so much better than the competition that comparisons long ago ceased to be relevant: they are uniquely excellent.

I haven't read novels [in the past ten years] except for all of the Patrick O'Brian series. It was, unfortunately, like tripping on heroin. I started on those books and couldn't stop.--E. O. Wilson

The best historical novels ever written... On every page Mr. O'Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important of all historical lessons: that times change but people don't, that the griefs and follies and victories of the men and women who were here before us are in fact the maps of our own lives.--Richard Snow

It has been something of a shock to find myself--an inveterate reader of girl books--obsessed with Patrick O'Brian's Napoleonic-era historical novels... What keeps me hooked are the evolving relationships between Jack and Stephen and the women they love.--Tamar Lewin

I devoured Patrick O'Brian's 20-volume masterpiece as if it had been so many tots of Jamaica grog.--Christopher Hitchens

Reseña del editor:

Just when it seems as though Jack Aubrey's life cannot get any worse, Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with the news that Chile requires a navy, and then he receives an urgent dispatch ordering him to Gibraltar following Napoleon's escape from Elba. Reprint.

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• Verlag: W W NORTON & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0393317048
• ISBN 13: 9780393317046
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262