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The best historical novels ever written. . . . On every page Mr. O Brian reminds us with subtle artistry of the most important of all historical lessons: that times change, but people don t, that the griefs and follies and victories of the men and women who were here before us are in fact the maps of our own lives. Richard Snow, New York Times Book Review
Patrick O’Brian
Patrick O’Brian was born in 1914 and published his first book, Caesar, when he was only fifteen. In the 1960s he began work on the idea that, over the next four decades, evolved into the twenty-novel long Aubrey–Maturin series (with an extra unfinished volume published posthumously). In 1995 he was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He died in January 2000 at the age of 85.
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