Patrick O'Brian
Subtitle: a life revealed
By: Dean King.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780805059762
Subjects: O'Brian, Patrick, 1914-; Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography; Historical fiction -- Authorship; Sea stories -- Authorship
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Dean King tells the story of a man, an artist and an intellectual, born Richard Patrick Russ, who first achieves literary recognition as an adolescent, when he publishes a series of popular adventure stories. After the Second World War, he emerges as Patrick O'Brian, a writer of dark, sometimes tortured short stories and highly literary novels. He enjoys success as a translator, even as a biographer.

Slowly, the O'Brian persona, forged in his own imagination and refined by years of rumor and speculation, takes form, until his ultimate triumphant arrival as a masterful historical novelist and chronicler of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-375) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Prologue : London, July 1945; title: Part one : Green.; title: A top hat, a clean collar, and clean boots, 1850-1900; title: Walden, 1914-1922; title: The pen mightier than the pain, 1923-1930; title: Part two : Red.; title: Beasts royal, 1930-1934; title: Darwinian pursuits, 1934-1939; title: Blood, sweat, toil, and tears, 1940-1943; title: An Irishman is born, 1943-1946; title: Part three : Slate.; title: The last approach to the mansion of Pluto, 1946-1947; title: Moelwyn Bank, 1948-1949; title: Part four : Azure.; title: The last stronghold of poets and painters, 1949-1953; title: The Catalans, 1953-1955; title: Voyaging with Commodore Anson, 1955-1959; title: Temple and Beauvoir, 1960-1966; title: Master and Commander, 1967-1969; title: An epic is launched, 1970-1973; title: Becoming Picasso, 1973-1976; title: Part five : Deep blue.; title: At sea again, 1976-1978; title: Writing with stunsails aloft and alow, 1978-1984; title: Singing of Sir Joseph, 1985-1986; title: Sailing in the trade winds, 1987-1990; title: Part six : Gold.; title: The best writer you never heard of? 1990-1992; title: The wages of fame, 1993-1994; title: The Commodore's second triumphal tour, 1995-1996; title: A night of honor, October 11, 1996; title: Epilogue