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Patrick O'Brian, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English Naval Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20-novel series is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language. A partially-finished twenty-first novel in the series was published posthumously containing facing pages of handwriting and typescript.
O'Brian was born Richard Patrick Russ, in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire and was the son of a physician of German descent and an English mother of Irish descent. The eighth of nine children, he lost his mother at the age of three, and his biographers describe a fairly isolated childhood, with sporadic schooling and long intervals at home with his father and stepmother, during which time his literary career began. In 1934 he underwent a brief period of pilot training with the Royal Air Force but this was not successful, and by 1935 he was living in London, where he married his first wife, Elizabeth, in 1936. They had two children; the second, a daughter, suffered from spina bifida and died in 1942 aged three, by which time O'Brian had left the family in their remote country cottage and returned to London, where he worked throughout the war. Commentators including biographer Dean King have claimed that O'Brian was actively involved in intelligence work and perhaps special operations overseas during the war and that these experiences informed those of his character Stephen Maturin, an intelligence agent. However, O'Brian's stepson Nikolai Tolstoy disputes this, although he confirms that O'Brian worked as a volunteer ambulance driver during the Blitz, where he met Mary, the separated wife of Russian-born nobleman and lawyer Count Dimitri Tolstoy. They lived together through the latter part of the war, and after both were divorced from their previous spouses they married in July 1945. The following month he changed his name by deed poll to Patrick O'Brian.
Between 1946 and 1949 the O'Brians lived in Cwm Croesor, a remote valley in north Wales, where they initially rented a cottage from Clough Williams-Ellis. The area enabled O'Brian to pursue his interest in natural history; he fished, went birdwatching, and followed the local hunt. During this time they lived on Mary O'Brian's small income and the limited earnings from O'Brian's writings. The countryside and people provided inspiration for many of his short stories of the period, and also his novel Testimonies (1952) which is set in a thinly disguised Cwm Croesor, and which was well received by critics. In 1949 O'Brian and Mary moved to Collioure, a Catalan town in southern France. Over the ensuing four decades he worked on his own writings, his British literary reputation growing slowly, and also became an established translator of French works into English. In the early 1990s the Aubrey-Maturin series was successfully relaunched into the American market, attracting critical acclaim and dramatically increasing O'Brian's sales and public profile in the UK and America. In 1995 he was awarded the inaugural Heywood Hill Literary Prize for his lifetime's writings, and he received a CBE in 1997. He and Mary remained together in Collioure until her death in 1998, but he continued to work on his naval novels, spending the winter of 1998–1999 at Trinity College, Dublin, which had awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1997.
O'Brian protected his privacy fiercely and was reluctant to reveal any details about his private life or past, preferring to include no biographical details on his book jackets and supplying only a minimum of personal information when pressed to do so. For many years reviewers and journalists presumed he was Irish, and he took no steps to correct the impression. In 1998 a BBC documentary followed by an exposé in the Daily Telegraph made public the facts of his ancestry, original name and first marriage, provoking considerable critical media comment. In the introduction to his biography of O'Brian, his stepson and O'Brian historian Nikolai Tolstoy claims to give a more accurate and balanced account of his late stepfather's character, actions and motives, particularly in respect of his first marriage and family.
O'Brian died in January 2000 during a stay in Dublin, and his body was returned to Collioure, where he is buried next to his wife.
Dean H. King's life of O'Brian, Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed was the first biography to document O'Brian's early life under his original name.
Nikolai Tolstoy is O'Brian's stepson through O'Brian's marriage to Mary (Wicksteed) Tolstoy, who divorced Count Dmitri Tolstoy in order to marry O'Brian in 1945. In November 2004, Nikolai Tolstoy published Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist, the first volume in a two-part biography of O'Brian using material from the Russ and Tolstoy families and sources, including O'Brian's personal papers and library, which Tolstoy inherited on O'Brian's death.
O'Brian published two novels, a collection of stories and several uncollected stories under his original name, Richard Patrick Russ. His first book, Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard, was written at the age of 12 and published three years later in 1930. It was a critical success, with a recommendation in the New Statesman and positive reviews in publications including the New York Herald Tribune and the Saturday Review of Literature.[8] Other stories followed, published in boys' magazines and annuals and incorporating themes of natural history and adventure, and a collection of these and other animal stories was published in 1934 under the title Beasts Royal, with illustrations by the noted artist Charles Tunnicliffe, illustrator of Tarka the Otter. Hussein: An entertainment, set in India, was published in 1938, when he was 23. It was notable for being the first book of contemporary fiction ever published by the Oxford University Press, to whose annuals for boys he had been a regular contributor for some years.
O'Brian published very little under his original name of Russ during World War II, and nothing after 1940. His change of surname in 1945 necessarily meant abandoning the literary reputation he had built up as R. P. Russ, and although he returned to writing after the war, when he moved to rural Wales, his non-fiction anthology A Book of Voyages (1947) attracted little attention. A collection of short stories, The Last Pool, was published in 1950 and was more widely and favourably reviewed, although sales were low.
In the 1950s O'Brian wrote three books aimed at a younger age group, The Road to Samarcand, The Golden Ocean, and The Unknown Shore. Although written many years before the Aubrey–Maturin series, the three novels reveal literary antecedents of Aubrey and Maturin. In the Road to Samarcand they can be discerned in Captain Sullivan and Professor Ayrton[citation needed]. In The Golden Ocean and The Unknown Shore, based on events of the Anson circumnavigation of 1740–1743, they can be clearly seen in the characters of Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow.
About author and audiobooks:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O%27Brian |
The Aubrey–Maturin Series
Patrick O'Brian - Master And Commander (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - Post Captain (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - H.M.S. Surprise (read by Simon Vance)
Patrick O'Brian - The Mauritius Command (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - Desolation Island (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - The Fortune Of War (read by Simon Vance)
Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate (read by Simon Vance)
Patrick O'Brian - The Ionian Mission (read by Simon Vance)
Patrick O'Brian - Treason's Harbour (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - The Far Side Of The World (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - The Reverse Of The Medal (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - The Letter Of Marque (read by Simon Vance)
Patrick O'Brian - The Thirteen-Gun Salute (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - The Nutmeg Of Consolation (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - Clarissa Oakes ( or The Truelove ) (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - The Wine-Dark Sea (read by Simon Vance)
Patrick O'Brian - The Commodore (read by Simon Vance)
Patrick O'Brian - The Yellow Admiral (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - The Hundred Days (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - Blue At The Mizzen (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - The Final Unfinished Voyage Of Jack Aubrey (or 21) (read by Patrick Tull)
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http://rapidgator.net/file/6d8604782241f0adcef668da75edef05/Master_And_Commander.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b10e1e67654667dbe09e51c75c97e3d3/Post_Captain.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e2e6d2d50796151d85c6fb73dce5f0c1/H.M.S._Surprise.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a6ce0565998a775ae8afbac36b3081ec/The_Mauritius_Command.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2a1fd0a8274e8d866a911787cbb45968/Desolation_Island.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/048659fbf11fb5199f5dfc88fa70f58c/The_Fortune_Of_War.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/75597547a19a2854fa5bee94e94818eb/The_Surgeons_Mate.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f1f3fd39ff57512a12126094b096330b/The_Ionian_Mission.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/81014b90f3c2635e6298b1fc91ff454e/Treasons_Harbour.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/221bc8d8e8e74dcf3960dbe649cc0e4b/The_Far_Side_Of_The_World.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/de58060989fc5d4449f9510d06e8559e/The_Reverse_Of_The_Medal.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e192df90ed9f5c6bca4d2b8a04924ed2/The_Letter_Of_Marque.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/92807fcc4f282128d5620d253a808319/The_Thirteen_Gun_Salute.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/66b98a26265942eb4a8e8acc6f24819e/The_Nutmeg_Of_Consolation.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3cc7dc9168817b8d3d99d61a86260a42/Clarissa_Oakes.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2345ea78add54a23ed2f29fec03a3eb3/The_Wine_Dark_Sea.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/779edd1d377fe2de2b56d6e15b3a689c/The_Commodore.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c8dae832612eb5ac62435429eb681b1d/The_Yellow_Admiral.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/906f2d48df26d5aeefe32b8063a855cd/The_Hundred_Days.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d6dcd5a9edc6d3e6b77096504c61c81a/Blue_At_The_Mizzen.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c13397a014fbebf417a3979d29c50ac5/The_Final_Unfinished_Voyage_Of_Jack_Aubrey.rar.html |
Fiction (Non-Serial)
Patrick O'Brian - The Catalans (or The Frozen Flame) (read by Simon Vance)
Patrick O'Brian - The Road To Samarcand (read by Simon Vance)
Patrick O'Brian - The Golden Ocean (read by John Franklyn-Robbins)
Patrick O'Brian - The Unknown Shore (read by Patrick Tull)
Patrick O'Brian - Richard Temple (read by Graeme Malcolm)
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http://rapidgator.net/file/9816398792fd0af8c70584a820c6a98b/The_Catalans.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9885e2d211a2abe8fd73f1fb9cd57812/The_Road_To_Samarcand.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a72435b0585fc06c1d4d956fc5821e31/The_Golden_Ocean.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4d37abe1db92bc374b91a08bd87f06ff/The_Unknown_Shore.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b57046f65b908cbeb4c92d2f5daccfdc/Richard_Temple.rar.html |
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