O'Brian was writing this book, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey, when he died in 2000. He reached the middle of Chapter 3 in what would inevitably have been ten chapters. The book consists of a corrected typescript and handwritten pages on facing sides, with the last five or six pages handwritten only.
The prose of the first two chapters doesn't flow as well as it does in O'Brian's finished works. I've often said it would be interesting to study how O'Brian manages his distinctive style, and this draft would be a fine contribution to that study.
And so I come to the end of the Aubrey - Maturin series :-(.
The prose of the first two chapters doesn't flow as well as it does in O'Brian's finished works. I've often said it would be interesting to study how O'Brian manages his distinctive style, and this draft would be a fine contribution to that study.
And so I come to the end of the Aubrey - Maturin series :-(.
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