The Letter of Marque
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 280
- ISBN-13
- 9780007275557
- Type
- novel
About this book
The twelfth novel in the sequence, "The Letter of Marque" (1988, 280 pages) followed "The Reverse of the Medal" into print, continuing Patrick O'Brian's unbroken chronicle of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin rather than jumping ahead or filling in gaps in their story.
Key facts about The Letter of Marque
The Letter of Marque is a novel by Patrick O'Brian. Readers have had it since 1988. It runs to 280 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Letter of Marque. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007275557 to find the main one.
The Letter of Marque is book 12 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 Letter of Marque is book 12 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Reverse of the Medal. It is followed by The Thirteen-Gun Salute. 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 9780007275557
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786219254
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007429073