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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9780393060119
ISBN number: 039306011X
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Quantity: 5
Page Count: 6980
Printing Date: October 30, 2004
Publishing house: W. W. Norton
Sale Popularity Level: 10627
Studio: W. W. Norton
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Product Description:
A handsomely bound omnibus edition of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring classics, including three chapters of the unfinished twenty-first novel.
These five volumes, beautifully produced and boxed, contain over 7,000 pages of what has often been described as a single, continuous narrative. They are a perfect tribute to such a literary achievement, and a perfect gift for the serious O'Brian enthusiast.
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How satisfying to have all the Aubrey/Maturin books in a nicely printed, hardcover edition. While volumes which contain multiple books are often unwieldy and difficult to hold, these are quite pleasant in the hand. If you are fascinated by Patrick O'Brian's recreation of early 19th. century life at sea (and on land as well), these are a must.
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I feel conflicted about giving this set of books only three stars.
On one hand, O'Brian's writing is brilliant. Speaking purely in terms of the literature, I would give his work five stars rather than three. I would describe this work as a combination of Herman Melville and Jane Austen. This set really consists of one long novel, not 25 short ones. For that reason, it makes sense to purchase all of the volumes at once.
Unfortunately, the publisher of this set did a distressingly careless job of proofreading the layout. (Had the editors been aboard one of Jack Aubrey's ships, they would have gotten flogged for their slovenly ways.) There are errors every couple of pages: stray punctuation marks, letters out of place, and even some sentences that seem to be cut in half or spliced in the wrong spot. While the frequent errors seldom prevent one from understanding the text, they are endlessly annoying, particularly in books that otherwise have the look and feel of a luxury edition. O'Brian's work deserves better than this.
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My husband wanted this set and they were all he had hoped. It's a beautifully packaged compilation and there was no damage during shipping. A+++!
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What should have been the definitive edition of these works has evidently been done on a penny-pinching budget (very probably copy-edited by a student earning vacation money). The misprints at some points really do detract horribly from the prose. Especially annoying for an author who took so much trouble to produce perfection.
An additional error, which I didn't see mentioned yet, is that in the unfinished 21st book, where the handwritten prose takes over from typed prose, the very first page of handwritten prose (which overlaps with the typed version and is included in the stand-alone version of this book) has been inadvertently omitted and there is a gap of a couple of paragraphs. More evidence of how slapdash this edition is.
So I have to end up saying - this is despite everything a good value edition, but caveat emptor. And a *huge* thumbs down to the publisher for producing a product that shows so very little respect for their author. Even after all these reviews, they have not cared to produce a corrected edition.
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4-5 novels per book and 5 books. A must read for naval buffs. A real buy at this price.
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