King traces O’Brian’s personal history, beginning as a London-born Protestant named Richard Patrick Russ, to his tortured relationship with his first wife and child, to his emergence from World War II with the entirely new identity ...
Published on the first anniversary of his death, this meticulously researched biography delves into the secrecy and confusion surrounding Patrick O'Brian, author of the Aubery-Maturin series of novels. "[O'Brian] devotees should rejoice in ...
"Originally published in Great Britain under the title Patrick O'Brian: Critical appreciations and a bibliography"--T.p. verso.
Tolstoy accumulated a vast collection of his stepfather's papers, correspondence, and notebooks--many of which are reproduced here--to present a complex portrait of the man considered by many to be the greatest British novelist of the 20th ...
Dean King tells the story of a man, an artist, and an intellectual, born Richard Patrick Russ, who emerges from the Second World War as Patrick O'Brian, a persona forged by his imagination and refined over the decades.