This long-out-of-print naval adventure in the series that started with Master and Commander (see The Mauritius Command below) finds Captain Jack Aubrey in charge of the H.M.S. Surprise. His ship's ...

DUBLIN, Ireland – Patrick O’Brian, the Anglo-Irish novelist whose stirring tales of the British Navy in the Napoleonic Wars made him a literary celebrity, died Sunday in Dublin. He was 85. In recent ...

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`The Wine-Dark Sea” is the 16th in Patrick O’Brian’s series of addictively readable Aubrey/Maturin novels of the British Navy at sea and at war in the early 19th Century. For those already caught in ...

Patrick O’Brian, the Anglo-Irish novelist whose stirring tales of the British navy in the Napoleonic Wars made him a literary celebrity at an age when most writers long have ceased to ply their trade, ...

As much a rebuttal as it is a biography, Tolstoy's biography of the twentieth century British novelist's life proves both unusually insightful and distractingly biased. The author's relationship to ...

Robert Messenger takes stock of a remarkable literary achievement with W. W. Norton’s release of Patrick O’Brian’s Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels including the unfinished twenty-first. It has never ...

For most of the last years of Patrick O'Brian's life, when his novels set during the Napoleonic Wars were gaining increasing acclaim, he appeared to be one of those writers whose command of his ...

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World sails into movie theaters Friday. Like the Patrick O'Brian books on which it is based, the film strives to recreate naval life during the Napoleonic era ...

POISED TO ENTER THE limousine that will take him to New York City's Bronx zoo, Patrick O'Brian reveals himself as the consummate out-of-towner. "Tell me," he asks, "where is this Bronx?" It's a funny ...