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Aubrey-Maturin · Book 16

The Wine-Dark Sea

by Patrick O'Brian
Published
1 January 1993
Pages
295
ISBN-13
9780007275595
Type
novel
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About this book

"The Wine-Dark Sea" (1993, 295 pages) is the sixteenth book in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, arriving well into the author's two-decade run of sustained prose quality that has made the series a natural next stop for Hornblower or Sharpe readers wanting more literary ambition.

Key facts about The Wine-Dark Sea

Patrick O'Brian wrote The Wine-Dark Sea, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1993. The book has 295 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007275595 to find the main one.

The Wine-Dark Sea is book 16 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 Wine-Dark Sea is book 16 in the Aubrey-Maturin series. It follows Clarissa Oakes. It is followed by The Commodore. 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…

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