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Title: The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0-393-31459-6 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: No. 17 in a classic series about the Royal Navy
Comment: Patrick O'Brian is a master at his craft: creating a vibrant, living world within the bounds of literature. The Commodore is the 17th book in O'Brian's series about two seafaring men. Jack Aubrey is a captain in the Royal Navy. Jack's best friend is Stephen Maturin, a surgeon in the Royal Navy as well as an intelligence agent working against the forces of Napoleon in the early 19th century. Even if you are not immediately attracted to tales of seagoing adventurers, the warmth, spirit and wealth of detail in O'Brian's prose is more than enough to delight even the most cynical reader. The Commodore is not the very best book in the series, but O'Brian is always, consistently excellent. I recommend this series most highly, and if you haven't begun the first book (Master and Commander), I envy you and your voyage ahead. Read it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Aubrey and Maturin in Late Middle Age: Still Great!
Comment:
"Come grow old with me / The best is yet to be..."
Browning's lines from "Rabbi Ben Ezra" apply nicely to O'Brian's great Aubrey/Maturin series (although I understand that the last couple of volumes in the series are not quite up to the standard). Partly because so few writers can create vital and interesting characters any more, O'Brian stands out with his correct Tory Naval captain (Jack Aubrey) and his British intelligence agent/scientist friend (Stephen Maturin), who show here that they can age gracefully.
But don't begin here. You have to have read the series in order to understand their tangled love and financial relationships and how the situation in THE COMMODORE came to be. If you have read the others through THE WINE DARK SEA, you are in for a real treat.
Aubrey and Maturin combat pro-Napoleonic forces at home and abroad. In the process, they deliver crippling blows to the West African slave trade and prevent a French landing in support of Irish independence.
Now that he has risen in the ranks, Aubrey must deal with issues raised by an incompetent spit-and-polish commander like Captain Thomas and by an otherwise talented sodomite in the person of Captain Duff whose officers rebel against favoritism shown to his catamites. Throughout the book, our heroes are uncertain of the welcome they will receive from their wives and families -- yet they are driven onward for King and Country.
Rating: 5
Summary: Aubrey and Maturin Off To West Africa and Ireland
Comment: Patrick O'Brian's 17th volume in his critically acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series of Royal Navy novels set during the Napoleonic wars has our intrepid heroes Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin sent by the Admiralty to the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade and then, to Ireland's Bantry Bay, to intercept yet another French attempt to forment rebellion in Ireland. Aubrey assumes command of a squadron, as a Commodore first class, with his old shipmate and first officer, Captain Thomas Pullings, as the captain of his flagship, the 74 gun two decker ship-of-the-line Bellona. Meanwhile Maturin must contend with the unexpected disappearance of his wife Diana, who has abandoned their autistic daughter Brigid, leaving them with Maturin's servant Padeen and Clarissa Oakes.
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Title: The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393309606 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Treason's Harbour by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393308634 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Ionian Mission by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393308219 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Surgeon's Mate by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393308200 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393308626 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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