Patrick O'Brian: A LifeMacmillan, 2001 - 416 Seiten In January 2000, Patrick O'Brian died in the Westbury Hotel in Dublin, Ireland. Like his life, O'Brian's death was marked by secrecy and confusion, sharpening the curiosity of his many readers who for years have speculated about the man behind the beloved Aubery-Maturin series of novels. Dean King at last unveils the story of Richard Patrick Russ, a writer and intellectual who emerged from the Second World War as Patrick O'Brian, a persona created by his imagination and refined over decades. To research this book, King crisscrossed Europe to speak to long-lost relatives, friends, and colleagues of his famously reclusive subject; now he has fashioned this wealth of information into a dramatic and compelling narrative. As King meticulously examines the events of O'Brian's life, he deepens and enriches our understanding and appreciation of O'Brian's work. |
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Authors Note to the Paperback Edition | xvi |
London July 1945 | xvi |
A Top Hat a Clean Collar and Clean Boots 18501900 | xvi |
Walden 19141922 | 15 |
The Pen Mightier than the Pain 19231930 | 30 |
Beasts Royal 19301934 | 45 |
Catching Lightning in a Jar 19341939 | 57 |
Blood Sweat Toil and Tears 19401943 | 79 |
An Epic Is Launched 19701973 | 205 |
Becoming Picasso 19731976 | 221 |
At Sea Again 19761978 | 235 |
Writing with Stunsails Aloft and Alow 19781984 | 244 |
Singing of Sir Joseph 19851986 | 268 |
Sailing in the Trade Winds 19871990 | 281 |
The Best Writer You Never Heard Of? 19901992 | 303 |
The Wages of Fame 19931994 | 328 |
An Irishman Is Born 19431946 | 92 |
The Last Approach to the Mansion of Pluto 19461947 | 103 |
Moelwyn Bank 19481949 | 118 |
The Last Stronghold of Poets and Painters 19491953 | 135 |
The Catalans 19531955 | 156 |
Voyaging with Commodore Anson 19551959 | 172 |
Temple and Beauvoir 19601966 | 181 |
Master and Commander 19671969 | 194 |
The Commodores Second Triumphal Tour 19951996 | 346 |
A Night of Honor October 11 1996 | 362 |
Epilogue | 367 |
Selected Bibliography | 371 |
Acknowledgments | 380 |
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Seite xvi - ... a book is the product of a different self from the self we manifest in our habits, in our social life, in our vices. If we would try to understand that particular self, it is by searching our own bosoms, and trying to reconstruct it there, that we may arrive at it.
Seite 8 - Perhaps only after one has realised the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it.