Master and Commander author’s early nautical stories – Noughts and Crosses, Two’s Company and No Pirates Nowadays – return to print after 80 yearsThree virtually unknown short stories by Patrick O’Brian of derring-do on the high seas, featuring everything from shark fishing on the Great Barrier Reef to encounters with pirates in the fog-bound northern Pacific, are due to be released next month to mark the centenary of the Master and Commander author’s birth.The stories, Noughts and Crosses, Two’s Company and No Pirates Nowadays, were published in the Oxford Annual for Boys in the late 1930s under a pseudonym, but have been out of print since then. They feature an Irishman, Sullivan, and a Scot, Ross. O’Brian’s publisher HarperCollins says these two characters can “clearly be seen as precursors to Jack and Stephen”, or Aubrey and Maturin, the ship’s surgeon and intelligence agent at the heart of the 21-book series for which he is best known. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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