Aubrey-Maturin · Book 6
The Fortune of War
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 329
- ISBN-13
- 9780007255887
- Type
- novel
About this book
The sixth Aubrey-Maturin novel, "The Fortune of War" (1979, 329 pages) followed "Desolation Island" into print, continuing the odd-couple friendship at the series' heart — Jack all appetite and social tin ear, Stephen all intellect and moral seriousness — as it unfolds across the Napoleonic Wars.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Fortune of War is book 6 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows Desolation Island. It is followed by The Surgeon's Mate. 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
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