The Commodore
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 293
- ISBN-13
- 9780006499329
- Type
- novel
About this book
Preceded by "The Wine-Dark Sea" and followed by "The Yellow Admiral," "The Commodore" (1995, 293 pages) holds the seventeenth spot in the Aubrey-Maturin sequence, deep into Jack and Stephen's decades-long friendship and naval-and-intelligence careers.
Key facts about The Commodore
The Commodore is a novel by Patrick O'Brian. Readers have had it since 1995. It runs to 293 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Commodore. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780006499329 to find the main one.
The Commodore is book 17 of 21 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. The series has 21 published books. However, the series starts with Master and Commander (1969). 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
The Commodore is book 17 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Wine-Dark Sea. It is followed by The Yellow Admiral. 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 9780786171118
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786148899
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781860420146