Patrick O'Brian: High wit on the high seas

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: August 28, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

THE NUTMEG OF CONSOLATION

By Patrick O'Brian

Norton, 315 pp., $19.95

Since 1970, and the first of his Aubrey-Maturin series of bluewater romances set in the Royal Navy of Napoleonic times, Patrick O'Brian has enjoyed an avid cult following. This year, however, after huzzahs from T.J. Binyon in TLS and Richard Snow, the editor of American Heritage, in The New York Times ("the best historical novels ever written"), the cult may indeed go public.

Whether or not one deems the series superior to "The Three Musketeers" or "Marius the Epicurean," O'Brian's books are (a) written with lucidity ...

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