| Country Great Britain Published 1969–2004 | Language English | |
| Authors Patrick O'Brian, Simon Vance Characters Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin, Diana Villiers Genres Nautical fiction, Historical drama Books Master and Commander, Post Captain, HMS Surprise, The Mauritius Command, Desolation Island | ||
The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, a physician, natural philosopher, and intelligence agent. The first novel, Master and Commander, was published in 1969 and the last finished novel in 1999. The 21st novel of the series, left unfinished at O'Brian's death in 2000, appeared in print in late 2004. The series received considerable international acclaim and most of the novels reached The New York Times Best Seller list. These novels comprise the heart of the canon of an author often compared to Jane Austen, C. S. Forester and other British authors central to the English literature canon.
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