Master and Commander
- Published
- 1 January 1969
- Pages
- 402
- ISBN-13
- 9780007892761
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Master and Commander" (1969, 402 pages) opens Patrick O'Brian's twenty-book Aubrey-Maturin sequence, introducing bluff Royal Navy officer Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon-naturalist-spy Stephen Maturin, who meet as strangers at a concert in Menorca in 1800 and nearly duel before becoming friends. Its early chapters are famous for throwing readers straight into period naval jargon with little hand-holding — most fans say it's worth pushing through the first hundred pages — and it later lent its title to the 2003 film adaptation.
Key facts about Master and Commander
Master and Commander is a novel by Patrick O'Brian. Readers have had it since 1969. It runs to 402 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Master and Commander. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007892761 to find the main one.
Master and Commander is book 1 of 21 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. The series has 21 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Hundred Days is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 28 September 1998.
That series sits on our historical fiction shelf. Meanwhile, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey is the latest published Patrick O'Brian book on file, from 2004.
About Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian (1914-2000) was a British novelist and translator best known for the Aubrey-Maturin series, twenty novels of Napoleonic-era naval fiction following Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey and his close friend, the ship's surgeon and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin. See every Patrick O'Brian book in order.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
Master and Commander is book 1 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It is followed by Post Captain. See the full Aubrey-Maturin reading order.
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels follow the friendship of Jack Aubrey, a bluff, brilliant, and perpetually broke Royal Navy officer, and Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon who is also a naturalist and, unbeknownst to most of the crew, a British intelligence agent. The two meet as strangers at a concert in Menorca in 1800 — nearly duelling before becoming friends — and the twenty novels that follow chart Jack's rise through the Napoleonic-era Navy and Stephen's parallel career gathering intelligence across…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007255832
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780006499152
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007429288