Aubrey-Maturin · Book 19
The Hundred Days
- Published
- 28 September 1998
- Pages
- 284
- ISBN-13
- 9780393046748
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 284 pages, "The Hundred Days" (September 1998) is the nineteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel, published as O'Brian neared the end of a sequence he would leave unfinished at his death two years later, still following Jack and Stephen through the closing stages of the Napoleonic Wars.
Its place in Aubrey-Maturin
The Hundred Days is book 19 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Yellow Admiral. It is followed by Blue at the Mizzen. 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 9780393046748
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786217489
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780753160916