Master and Commander: 20 Volume Set Hardcover | Pages: 171 pages

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Original Title:	Master and Commander 20 Volume Set
ISBN:	0999913492 (ISBN13: 9780999913499)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin

Narrative To Books Master and Commander: 20 Volume Set

Comprising:

Master & Commander;
Post Captain;
H.M.S. 'Surprise';
The Mauritius Command;
Desolation Island;
The Fortune of War;
The Surgeon's Mate;
The Ionian Mission;
Treason's Harbour;
The Far Side of the World;
The Reverse of the Medal;
The Letter of Marque;
The Thirteen-Gun Salute;
The Nutmeg of Consolation;
The Truelove/Clarissa Oakes;
The Wine-Dark Sea;
The Commodore;
The Yellow Admiral;
The Hundred Days;
Blue at the Mizzen.

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Title	:	Master and Commander: 20 Volume Set
Author	:	Patrick O'Brian
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 171 pages
Published	:	October 4th 2003
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Classics. Literature. War. Military Fiction

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Ratings: 4.76 From 1169 Users | 122 Reviews

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The first few books in the series were tough to get through, the middle group is a little more readable but at the end it's just a swamp of words and filler to slog through. "Every word must pay its way" I was told by a college writing professor. O'Brian fails miserably here. The excessive, irrelevant, unnecessarily wordy detail of the writing finally did me in and I abandoned the series in the middle of the Yellow Admiral; it was just impassable for me a swamp too far.I also found O'Brian very

I get really tired of these - not enough action and too much of spy and mucic and phylosophy!

One of my top three authors. Loved all the books in the Aubrey-Maturin series. You can't help but fall in the love with the characters--not only captain Jack Aubrey and doctor/intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, but the wide cast of shipmates, families and friends. O'Brian is not only a great writer but captures the time in a way that is both accurate and fascinating.

These books were my absolute favorites of all time (so far!). When I first read the first in the series, Master and Commander, I really enjoyed getting to know the main characters, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. I had already seen the movie with Russell Crowe and this book explained how they met. The sea battles were really good, even though I usually skim through that sort of thing. I started book #two suspecting I would get bored, that it would just be a bunch of sea battles, but I

The first book, Master and Commander, is essentially the opening chapter of a 20-volume novel set against the naval engagements of the Napoleonic wars. Jane Austen on a boat. Although the quality dims over the last five volumes, the first fifteen are faultless. I marvel at, to quote A.S. Byatt, O'Brian's 'prodigal specificity', his humane touch, his humor and subtlety, the perfect balance of exuberance and restraint, his unerring eye for the exact word, the comic detail, and his ability to



I am halfway through the series, book ten. So far I love these books. They are fascinating to read, although I must admit I sift through the battles. I realize a lot of people reading these books will be interested in the technical aspects of the battles between ships, however I am not so much. As a passive reader of the series, what I find most interesting is the weaving character narrative between Jack and Steven, and their surrounding shipmates and families on shore. So far very entertaining,