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  Aubrey-Maturin: Book 18

  The Yellow Admiral

  by Patrick O'Brian

  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... (more)
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  Melmoth the Wanderer

  by Charles Maturin

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  A Sea of Words

  A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales

  by Dean King

  This comprehensive lexicon provides definitions of nautical terms, historical entries describing the people and political events that shaped the period, and detailed explanations of the scientific, medical, and biblical references that appear in the novels.
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  Melmoth the Wanderer

  by Charles Robert Maturin

  Part Faust, part Mephistopheles, Melmoth has made a satanic bargain for immortality. Now he wanders the earth, an outsider with an eerie, tortured existence, searching for someone who will take on his contract and release him to die a natural death. With its erudition and wit, and its parody of arcane learned manuscripts, this Gothic masterpiece-first published in 1820-follows in the tradition of both the... (more)
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  The Albigenses

  by Charles Robert Maturin

  General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. tvritti, Moiwa, As Sir Paladour... (more)
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  Patrick O'Brian's Navy

  The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World

  by Richard O'Neill

  From the moment that Master and Commander , the first of Patrick O'Brian's sequence of 20 novels about the 19th century British Royal Navy officer Jack Aubrey and his surgeon colleague Stephen Maturin, was published in 1970, critics hailed his work as a masterpiece of historical recreation. Called "the best historical novels ever written" by The New York Times , the books have sold more than 3 million copies. ... (more)