Master and Commander
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Master and Commander is the 1969 novel by Patrick O'Brian that begins his 20-volume Aubrey/Maturin series of naval novels set during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1800, Lieutenant Jack Aubrey is given his first command, the sloop Sophie, and forms a lasting friendship with Stephen Maturin, a physician and naturalist who joins him as ship's surgeon.
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- Stephen King: “On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition (Scribner, 2010), per afterword list in On Writing (10th anniv. ed.)”