· TESTIMONIES. by Patrick O'Brian ‧ RELEASE DATE: . A welcome reissue of O'Brian's moving and very fine first novel—a novel of "unassuming proportion and immaculate design" (Kirkus, August 1, ). This precursor to the author's Captain Jack Aubrey series about the Royal Navy (begun with The Mauritius Command in ) concerns (to quote ourselves) the . Patrick O'Brian is more than a writer. He's a publishing phenomenon via his superb Aubrey-Maturin series. But TESTIMONIES was his first novel, originally published in It tells of an English professor of Welsh origins, Joseph Pugh, who abandons teaching at Oxford and moves to a cottage in Wales/5(41). Patrick O'Brian is more than a writer. He's a publishing phenomenon via his superb Aubrey-Maturin series. But TESTIMONIES was his first novel, originally published in It tells of an English professor of Welsh origins, Joseph Pugh, who abandons teaching at Oxford and moves to a cottage in Wales/5(42).
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Delmore Schwartz, the most influential critic in postwar America, wrote of Patrick O'Brian's first novel Testimonies: "A triumph drawn forward by lyric eloquence and the story's fascination, [the reader] discovers in the end that he has encountered in a new way the sphinx and the riddle of existence itself." Schwartz' imagination was fired by this sinister tale of love and death set in Wales, a timeless story with echoes of Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb. TESTIMONIES. by Patrick O'Brian ‧ RELEASE DATE: . A welcome reissue of O'Brian's moving and very fine first novel—a novel of "unassuming proportion and immaculate design" (Kirkus, August 1, ). This precursor to the author's Captain Jack Aubrey series about the Royal Navy (begun with The Mauritius Command in ) concerns (to quote ourselves) the "testimonies of Joseph Aubrey Pugh, an Oxford don of middle years, and Bronwen Vaughan, the young wife of a Welsh farmer. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Testimonies by Patrick O'Brian (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!.
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