[PDF] Clarissa Oakes eBook

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 000742941X

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With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 039308857X

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“The Aubrey-Maturin series . . . ebbs and flows with the timeless tide of character and the human heart."—Ken Ringle, Washington Post A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the Sandwich Islands at French instigation, and Captain Jack Aubrey is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only Aubrey’s friend, Dr. Stephen Maturin, can fathom Harvill’s secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue identifying a highly-placed English spy in the pay of Napoleon’s intelligence service. In a thrilling finale, Patrick O’Brian delivers all the excitement his many readers expect: Aubrey and the crew of the Surprise impose a brutal pax Britannica upon the islanders in a pitched battle against a band of headhunting cannibals.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393035582

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At the outset of an adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize through the stormy seas and icebergs south of Cape Horn, where the hunters suddenly become the hunted.

Author : Sue Parrill
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786458038

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This book provides summaries and analyses of more than 250 novels and nearly 30 films and examines the extent to which they accurately reflect the history, mores and manners of the period--and the extent to which they reveal the ideas and attitudes of their authors and of the periods in which they were written. Particular emphasis is placed on the nature and importance of the war at sea for the British and on the role of famous naval officers such as Nelson, Pellew, Duncan, Smith and Cochrane in the defeat of Napoleon.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character)
ISBN :

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As he sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies, Jack Aubrey, is unaware that they have a stranger aboard. He is pondering middle age and sexual frustration and totally out of touch with his entire crew. They know about the dangerous stranger who could potentially destroy the ship.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393063712

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"There are those already planning this afternoon's trip to the bookstore. Their only reaction is: Thank god, Patrick O'Brian is still writing. To you, I say, not a moment to lose."—John Balzar, Los Angeles Times Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian's best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the Admiralty by his erratic voting as a Member of Parliament; he is feuding with his neighbor, a man with strong Navy connections who wants to enclose the common land between their estates; he is on even worse terms with his wife, Sophie, whose mother has ferreted out a most damaging trove of old personal letters. Even Jack's exploits at sea turn sour: in the storm waters off Brest he captures a French privateer laden with gold and ivory, but this at the expense of missing a signal and deserting his post. Worst of all, in the spring of 1814, peace breaks out, and this feeds into Jack's private fears for his career. Fortunately, Jack is not left to his own devices. Stephen Maturin returns from a mission in France with the news that the Chileans, to secure their independence, require a navy, and the service of English officers. Jack is savoring this apparent reprieve for his career, as well as Sophie's forgiveness, when he receives an urgent dispatch ordering him to Gibraltar: Napoleon has escaped from Elba.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393088472

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"[The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page....You're in for a wonderful voyage."—Cutler Durkee, People Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious attack by Malay pirates is repulsed, but the makeshift vessel burns, and they are truly marooned. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the whimsy and ingenuity of Patrick O'Brian—or Stephen Maturin—could devise. In command now of a new ship, the Nutmeg, Aubrey pursues his interrupted mission. The dreadful penal colony in New South Wales, harrowingly described, is the backdrop to a diplomatic crisis provoked by Maturin's Irish temper, and to a near-fatal encounter with the wildlife of the Australian outback.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2003-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788435017855

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Patrick O ́Brian (1914-2000) pertenece a esa categoría de autores capaces de revitalizar un género literario. Considerado como uno de los más célebres y prestigiosos cultivadores de novela histórica, y más específicamente de literatura naval, sus espléndidas reproducciones de época, su atención al detalle, su sensibilidad para crear personajes complejos y profundos y su perspicacia para comprender el comportamiento humano le han permitido llegar a todo tipo de lectores, y han justificado que a menudo se le comparara con Marcel Proust.