Patrick O'Brian

A Life Revealed

Biography & Memoir, Literary
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Author: Dean King ISBN: 9781453238332
Publisher: Open Road Media Publication: March 20, 2012
Imprint: Open Road Media Language: English
Author: Dean King
ISBN: 9781453238332
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication: March 20, 2012
Imprint: Open Road Media
Language: English

A revealing and insightful look at one of the modern world’s most acclaimed historical novelists

Patrick 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.

King 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.

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A revealing and insightful look at one of the modern world’s most acclaimed historical novelists

Patrick 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.

King 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.

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