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Cover of Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure

Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure

✍ Scribed by O'Brian, Patrick


Book ID
109194737
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
560 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780008112943

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✦ Synopsis


Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian οΏ½ made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and beautifully repackaged. Published when Patrick O'Brian was just nineteen, this is the enchanting, often bloodthirsty collection of twelve tales of animal adventure that would appear in 1934 as the author's second book. His first, Caesar, had been published in 1930 and was an instant success, seeing O'Brian hailed as the 'boy-Thoreau'. As with Caesar, Beasts Royal sheds fascinating light on the formation of the literary genius behind the Aubrey-Maturin series of historical adventure tales. With the dry wit and unsentimental precision O'Brian would come to be loved for, we see the tragedies of ...


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