H.M.S. Surprise
The misadventures of Stephen Maturin, adventures in two Englishes, and a girl named Dil
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H.M.S. Surprise is the first really characteristic Aubrey-Maturin novel, setting the tone and template for the other books in the series; if you are hesitating over taking the plunge this isn’t a bad place from which to begin. The plotting is episodic: one of the patterns the novel establi…
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