The World of Patrick O'Brian

Edited by A. E. Cunningham

Patrick O'Brian

Critical Essays and a Bibliography

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction—William Waldegrave

I. Black, Choleric & Married?—by Patrick O'Brian

II. A Literary Review

The Jack Aubrey Novels: an editorial report—Richard Ollard
In Which We Serve—John Bayley
Arms and the Man—Charlton Heston
III. The Historical Perspective
The Naval World of Jack Aubrey—N. A. M. Rodger
Jack Aubrey's Ships—Brian Lavery
The Medical World of Dr. Stephen Maturin—Louis Jolyon West
IV. A Fictional Interlude—Two Stories by Patrick O'Brian
"Samphire" (1955)
"Simon" (1994)
V. A Bibliographical Record
Bibliography—A.E. Cunningham
Four Decades of Reviews—Stuart Bennett
Notes on the Contributors
POB Critical book jacket

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1994 / hardcover / ISBN 0-393-03626-X
6.5" x 9.5" / 176 pages / Literature/Patrick O'Brian
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