Patrick O'Brian: the Making of the Novelist.(The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey)(Book Review)

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Patrick O'Brian The Making of the Novelist Nikolai Tolstoy Century 496 pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0712670254

The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey Patrick O'Brian HarperCollins 136 pp 18.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0007194692

PATRICK O'BRIAN'S SUCCESS AS A NOVELIST has been an extraordinary phenomenon, coming, as it did, at the end of a long career that had opened with a teenage publication in 1930. He died in the new year of 2000 and this year, 2004, sees the publication of the draft opening chapters of an untitled novel, which would have been the ...

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