The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey. Including facsimile of the manuscript

Langue : anglais

Edité par HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2004

0007194692 / 9780007194698

Série : Livre 21 sur 21 - Aubrey/Maturin Novels

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First edition, first impression with full number line. Ex library with usual stamps and defects. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£18.99), no personal inscriptions, internally cleanish tight and square, overall a reasonable copy for ex library. 136pp, illustrated endpapers. At the time of his death, Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000), had begun to write a novel to follow on from 'Blue at the Mizzen'. These are the chapters he had completed of the final voyage of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, the greatest friendship of modern literature. The story picks up from the end of 'Blue at the Mizzen' when Jack Aubrey receives the news in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank, Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. This new novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of O'Brian's death, would have been a chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. As the novel opens, we are able to visit these friends we have followed so very far in a rare state of almost perfect felicity. Jack has seen his illegitimate son ably discharging important duties. Sophie and his daughters are with him, Brigid is with her father, she's thriving, and Stephen is with a woman who is very dear to him. Jack at last, is flying a rear admiral's flag aboard a ship of the line. The chapters left on O'Brian's death are presented here both in printed version including his corrections to the typescript, and a facsimile of his manuscript, which goes several pages beyond the end of the typescript and includes marginal notes by O'Brian. And so this great 'roman fleuve' comes to an end with Jack, with his 'sacred blue flag', sailing through fair sweet days, Stephen with his dissections and new love, Killick muttering darkly over the toasted cheese. Of course, we would rather have had the whole story, instead we have this proof that O'Brian's powers of observation, his humour and his understanding of his characters were undiminished to the end.…

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Titre
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey. Including facsimile of the manuscript
Auteur
O'Brian, Patrick. Foreword by William Waldegrave
Éditeur
HarperCollins Publishers, London
Année de publication
2004
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Very Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0007194692
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780007194698
Illustrateur
Jacket by Geoff Hunt
Édition
1st Edition
Impression
1st Printing
Dimensions
4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Série
Livre 21 sur 21: Aubrey/Maturin Novels

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