Tobias, Scott (January 4, 2019). "Revisiting Hours: Ships Ahoy — 'Master and Commander' ". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on January 9, 2019 . Retrieved January 7, 2019.

Weir, asked in 2005 if he would make a sequel, stated he thought it "most unlikely", and after internet rumors to the contrary, stated "I think that while it did well... ish at the box office, it didn't generate that monstrous, rapid income that provokes a sequel." [39] In 2007 the film was included on a list of "13 Failed Attempts To Start Film Franchises" by The A.V. Club, noting that "this surely stands as one of the most exciting opening salvos in nonexistent-series history, and the Aubrey–Maturin novels remain untapped cinematic ground." [40] O'Brian's books were written and published in the same chronological sequence as the events they describe, beginning with Master and Commander, set in 1800, and carrying through to the final novel, set in late 1815 after the Battle of Waterloo. Guide for the Perplexed by A G Brown. Translations into English of foreign phrases within the novels.Stephen dutifully asks for her hand in marriage and she says……… (oh, c’mon, I’m not giving that away). The first few books in the series were tough to get through, the middle group is a little more readable but at the end it's just a swamp of words and filler to slog through. "Every word must pay its way" I was told by a college writing professor. O'Brian fails miserably here. The excessive, irrelevant, unnecessarily wordy detail of the writing finally did me in and I abandoned the series in the middle of the Yellow Admiral; it was just impassable for me – a swamp too far. Cochrane, Thomas, Earl of Dundonald (1860). The Autobiography of a Seaman. Vol.I. London: Richard Bentley. p.107. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021 . Retrieved September 4, 2017. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) In his introduction to The Far Side of the World, the 10th book in the series, O'Brian wrote that if the author "had known how many books were to follow the first, he would certainly have started the sequence much earlier" in real historical time. He goes on to explain that "if his readers will bear with him", books of the series will be set in "hypothetical years, rather like those hypothetical moons used in the calculation of Easter: an 1812a as it were or even an 1812b". [7] In effect, the period from June to December 1813 is stretched out to accommodate events that ought to occupy five or six years. Stephen Maturin: Irish- Catalan physician, natural philosopher and musician, taken on as surgeon of Sophie.

Alexander Kent, pseudonym of Douglas Reeman for his Bolitho novels, a contemporary of O'Brian who wrote a series of novels about the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.

(21) Unfinished final book **

a b c d e f g h i j Fuster, Jeremy (November 13, 2018). " 'Master and Commander': 15th Anniversary of the Franchise That Never Was". The Wrap. Archived from the original on November 29, 2020 . Retrieved February 18, 2021. Grossman, Anne Chotzinoff; Thomas, Lisa Grossman (2000). Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels. W W Norton & Co. ISBN 0-393-32094-4. Christopher Hitchens gave a mixed review: "Any cinematic adaptation of O'Brian must stand or fall by its success in representing this figure [Dr. Stephen Maturin]. On this the film doesn't even fall, let alone stand. It skips the whole project." (The film omits completely the fact that the doctor and naturalist is also a spy for England—a key plot element in the novels.) Hitchens nonetheless praised the action scenes, writing: "In one respect the action lives up to its fictional and actual inspiration. This was the age of Bligh and Cook and of voyages of discovery as well as conquest, and when HMS Surprise makes landfall in the Galapagos Islands we get a beautifully filmed sequence about how the dawn of scientific enlightenment might have felt." [34] a b c d e f French, Philip (November 22, 2003). "Command Performance". The Guardian. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021 . Retrieved March 1, 2021. The title derives from the first Aubrey-Maturin novel and the tenth book in the series, which is the principal source. ... The film's director, Peter Weir, and John Collee, his co-screenwriter, have made a major change by shifting the time from 1812 to 1805, some weeks before Trafalgar, and turning the enemy into France instead of the United States. They've also taken the bold step of eliminating any scenes shot in ports... and reducing the female presence...

a b c d e Epstein, Jacob (November 16, 2003). "Film; 'Master and Commander': On the Far Side of Credibility". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020 . Retrieved February 21, 2021. a b c d "Box Office History". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on May 14, 2019 . Retrieved January 30, 2009. a b "The odd couple all at sea". The Telegraph. London. 11 January 1997. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015 . Retrieved 21 February 2010.

(14) The Nutmeg of Consolation

By the time I was halfway through the book there had already been a pregnancy, two suspected murders, storms and the taking of a prize.