Description

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“The best historical novels ever written.”—Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review

Patrick O’Brian’s twenty-one-volume Aubrey/Maturin series has delighted generations of devoted fans, inspired a blockbuster film, and sold millions of copies in twenty-four languages. These five omnibus volumes, beautifully produced and boxed, contain 7,000 pages of what has often been described as a single, continuous narrative. They are a perfect tribute for such a literary achievement, and a perfect gift for the O’Brian enthusiast.

About the Author

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One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O’Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

Praise For…

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No writer alive can move one as O’Brian can. . . . He is the master.
— Kevin Myers - Irish Press

Like John le Carré, [O’Brian] has erased the boundary separating a debased
genre from ‘serious’ fiction. O’Brian is a novelist, pure and simple, one of the
best we have.
— Mark Horowitz - Los Angeles Times Book Review

“[O’Brian’s novels] will outlive most of today’s putative literary gems as Sherlock
Holmes has outlived Bulwer-Lytton, as Mark Twain has outlived Charles
Reade.
— David Mamet - New York Times