The Nutmeg of Consolation
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780002234610
- Type
- novel
About this book
"The Nutmeg of Consolation" (1991, 320 pages) followed "The Thirteen-Gun Salute" into print as the fourteenth Aubrey-Maturin novel, carrying Jack and Stephen's friendship and careers further through the world's oceans that give the series its scope.
Key facts about The Nutmeg of Consolation
Patrick O'Brian wrote The Nutmeg of Consolation, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1991. The book has 320 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780002234610 to find the main one.
The Nutmeg of Consolation is book 14 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 Nutmeg of Consolation is book 14 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows The Thirteen-Gun Salute. It is followed by Clarissa Oakes. 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 9780002234610
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007275571
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007429400