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From Dean King's Patrick O'Brian:

The Aubrey-Maturin Novels: (first publications)

Patrick O'Brian . Master and Commander. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1969, London: Collins, 1970; New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.

_______ . Post Captain. London: Collins, 1972; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1972; New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.

_______ . H. M. S. Surprise. London: Collins, 1973; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1973; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

_______ . The Mauritius Command. London: Collins, 1977; New York: Stein and Day, 1978; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

_______ . Desolation Island. London: Collins, 1978; New York: Stein and Day, 1979; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

_______ . The Fortune of War. London: Collins, 1979; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

_______ . The Surgeon's Mate. London: Collins, 1980; New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

_______ . The Ionian Mission. London: Collins, 1981; New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

_______ . Treason's Harbour. London: Collins, 1983; New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

_______ . The Far Side of the World. London: Collins, 1984; New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

_______ . The Reverse of the Medal. London: Collins, 1986; New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

_______ . The Letter of Marque. London: Collins, 1988; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

_______ . The Thirteen Gun Salute. London: Collins, 1989; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

_______ . The Nutmeg of Consolation. London: Collins, 1991; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

_______ . Clarissa Oakes. London: HarperCollins, 1992; subsequently published as The Truelove, New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.

_______ . The Wine-Dark Sea. London: HarperCollins, 1993; New York: W. W. Norton, 1993.

_______ . The Commodore. London: HarperCollins, 1994; New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.

_______ . The Yellow Admiral. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996; London: Harper-Collins, 1997.

_______ . The Hundred Days. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998; London: Harper-Collins, 1998.

 

Other Works:

_______ . ed. A Book of Voyages. London: Home and Van Thal, 1947.

_______ . The last Pool and Other Stories. London: Seeker and Warburg, 1950.

_______ . Three Bear Witness. London: Seeker and Warburg, 1952; subsequently published as Testimonies, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.

_______ . "Song." Poetry Ireland, April 1952.

_______ . "The Green Creature." Harper's Bazaar, December 1952.

_______ . The Catalans. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1953; subsequently published as The Frozen Flame, London: Hart-Davis, 1953.

_______ . "Samphire." Harper's Bazaar, March 1953.

_______. "The Walker." Harper's Bazaar, October 1953.

_______ . The Road to Samarcand. London: Hart-Davis, 1954.

_______ . "The Slope of the High Mountain." Harper's Bazaar, January 1954.

_______ . The Walker and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1955; subsequently published as Lying in the Sun and Other Stories, London: Hart-Davis, 1956.

_______ . "Lying in the Sun." Harper's Bazaar, August 1955.

_______ . The Golden Ocean. London: Hart-Davis, 1956; New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.

_______ . The Unknown Shore. London: Hart-Davis, 1959; New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.

_______ . Richard Temple. London: Macmillan, 1962.

_______ , trans. Papillon, by Hcnri Charriere. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1970.

_______ , trans. Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon, by Henri Charriere. New York: William Morrow, 1973.

_______ . The Chian Wine and Other Stories. London: Collins, 1974.

_______ . "A Sung Landscape Remembered." Cornhill Magazine, summer 1974.

_______ . Pablo Ruiz Picasso: A Biography. London: Collins, 1976; New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.

_______ . "In Upper Lesson Street." Irish Press, March 5, 1977.

_______ . Joseph Banks: A Life. London: Collins Harvill, 1987; Boston: Godine, 1993.

_______ . "A Life in the Day of Patrick O'Brian." Sunday Times Magazine, November 5, 1989.

_______ . "Great Encounters. Review of The Price of Admiralty, by John Keegan. London Review of Books, January 11, 1990.

_______ . "Das Boot." Review of The U-Boat War in the Atlantic, 1939-1945, by Günter Hessler, and Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars, 1916-1945, by John Terraine. London Review of Books, August 30, 1990.

_______ . "The Great War." In Edwardian Brooks's: A Social History, ed. Philip Ziegler and Desmond Sewald. London: Constable, 1991.

_______ . "What Boswell Didn't Tell Us About Johnson." Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell. Daily Telegraph, August 22, 1992.

_______ . "Just a Phase I'm Going Through?" Weekend Telegraph, August 27, 1994.

_______ . The Collected Short Stories. London: HarperCollins, 1994; subsequently published as The Rendezvous and Other Stories. New York: W. W. Norton. 1994.

_______ . " The Clockmaker's Prize." Review of Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, by Dava Sobel. Sunday Telegraph, August 11,1996.

_______ . Foreword to The Drake Manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Histoire Naturelle des Indes. London: André Deutsch, 1996.


Russ, Patrick. Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda Leopard. London and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Subsequently published under author name Patrick O'Brian. Boston Spa: The British Library, 1999.

_______ . "Skogula--the Sperm Whale." Chums, October 24, 1931,314-15.

_______ . "Wang Khan of the Elephants." In The Oxford Annual for Scouts, ed. Herbert Strang, 107-12. London: Oxford University Press, 1933.

_______ . "A Tale About a Great Peregrine Falcon." Great-Heart: The Church of Scotland Magazine--for Boys and Girls, March 1933, 50-52.

_______ . Beasts Royal. London: Putnam, 1934.

_______ . "The White Cobra." In The Oxford Annual for Scouts, ed. Herbert Strang, 66-70. London: Oxford University Press, 1934.

_______ . "Cheetah." In The Oxford Annual for Boys, ed. Herbert Strang, 144-52. London: Oxford University Press, 1935.

_______ . "Noughts and Crosses." In The Oxford Annual for Boys, ed. Herbert Strang. London: Oxford University Press, 1936.

_______ . "Two's Company." In The Oxford Annual for Boys, ed. Herbert Strang, 5-18. London: Oxford University Press, 1937.

_______ . Hussein: An Entertainment. London: Oxford University Press, 1938. Subsequently published under author name Patrick O'Brian. Boston Spa: The British Library, 1999.

_______ . "One Arctic Summer." In The Oxford Annual for Boys, ed. Herbert Strang, 18-96. London: Oxford University Press, 1938.

_______ . "No Pirates Nowadays." In The Oxford Annual for Boys, ed. Herbert Strang, 5-22. London: Oxford University Press, 1940.

A search in June 2002 of buy.com reveals about 90 "products" for Patrick O'Brian. Besides the standard versions, there are large-print and audio versions of the Aubrey-Maturin series. W.W. Norton has also republished several of the Patrick Russ books! And there are translations (from French) by O'Brian that Dean King did not list in the bibliography above, including one about DeGaulle.

Dean King's books to understand O'Brian:

Patrick O'Brian [A life revealed] / Dean King. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2000. an unauthorized biography

Harbors and High Seas. An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian, 2nd edition / Dean King with John B. Hattendorf, maps by William Clipson, Adam Merton Cooper, Jeffrey Ward. An Owl Book, Henry Holt and Co., New York. © 1996, 1999

A Sea of Words. A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales. Second edition. 1997. Dean King, with John B Hattendorf and J. Worth Estes. An Owl Book, Henry Holt & Co., New York

and an oddity:

Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels. Anne Chotzinoff Grossman and Lisa Grossman Thomas. W.W. Norton, New York. 2000



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