Patrick O'Brian

  • Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed
    By Dean King

    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 ...

  • Patrick O'brian: A Life
    By Dean King

    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 ...

  • Patrick O'Brian: Critical Essays and a Bibliography
    By Arthur E. Cunningham, A. E. Cunningham

    "Originally published in Great Britain under the title Patrick O'Brian: Critical appreciations and a bibliography"--T.p. verso.

  • Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist
    By Nikolai Tolstoy

    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 ...

  • Patrick O'Brian: A Life
    By Dean King

    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.