ADRIAN, JACK, ED. DETECTIVE Stories from the Strand. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Baker, John F. “Starling Lawrence: Editor to Spare-Time Novelist.” Publishers Weekly, August 4,1997.
Barr, Donald. “Substance and Shadow.” Review of The Walker and Other Stories, by Patrick O’Brian. New York Times Book Review, August 14, 1955.
Bayley, John. “The Matter of India.” Review of The Reverse of the Medal, by Patrick O’Brian. London Review of Books, March 19, 1987.
——— “Glorious Pictures of Life on the High Seas.”Evening Standard, October 14, 1996.
Binyon, T. J. “Ship-shape.” Review of The Fortune of War, by Patrick O’Brian. Times Literary Supplement, February 15, 1980.
———. “Fore and Aft.” Review of The Surgeon’s Mate, by Patrick O’Brian. Times Literary Supplement, August 1, 1980.
———. “The Man with His Eye on the Mast.” Review of The Nutmeg of Consolation, by Patrick O’Brian. Independent, February 23, 1991.
———. “Taken by Surprise.” Review of The Wine-Dark Sea, by Patrick O’Brian. Evening Standard, July 1993.
———. “A Life on the Ocean Wave.” Review of The Yellow Admiral, by Patrick O’Brian. Sunday Times, January 5, 1997.
“Bogged Down in Vietnam.” Review of The Quicksand War, by Lucien Bodard, trans.
Patrick O’Brian. Times Literary Supplement, May 16, 1968.
Boswell, James. Life of Johnson. 3d ed., ed. R. W. Chapman. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
“Broken Marriages.” Times, July 17, 1945.
Brown, Beatrice Curtis. Southwards from Swiss Cottage. London: Home and Van Thal, 1947.
Byatt, A. S. “Salts of the Earth.” Review of The Nutmeg of Consolation, by Patrick O’Brian. Evening Standard, February 14, 1991.
———. “At Sea in the Brothel of Life.” Review of Clarissa Oakes, by Patrick O’Brian. Evening Standard, March 26, 1992.
Cabanne, Pierre. Pablo Picasso: His Life and Times. Trans. Harold J. Salemson. New York: William Morrow, 1977.
“Character and Motive.” Review of Three Bear Witness, by Patrick O’Brian. Times, May 10, 1952.
Chesterfield, Earl of (Philip Dormer Stanhope). Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son. New York: Tudor, 1937.
“Clash with Convention.” Review of Three Bear Witness, by Patrick O’Brian. Times Literary Supplement, May 16, 1952.
Colley, Linda. “A Curiously Impersonal Man.” Review of Joseph Banks: A Life, by Patrick O’Brian. New York Times Book Review, March 28, 1993.
“Coming to the Point.” Review of Lying in the Sun, by Patrick O’Brian. Times Literary Supplement, May 11, 1956.
Cunningham, A. E. Patrick O’Brian: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography. Boston Spa: The British Library, 1994. Subsequently published as Patrick O’Brian: Critical Essays and a Bibliography. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.
Davey, Richard. Furs and Fur Garments. London: International Fur Store; Roxburghe Press, 1895.
Dening, Greg. “Around the Natural World.” Review of Joseph Banks: A Life, by Patrick O’Brian. Washington Post, August 8, 1993.
De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, and Kindred Papers. Vol. 1. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1876.
Ditler, Joseph. “The Commodore.” Review of The Commodore, by Patrick O’Brian. From manuscript, April 19, 1995.
Doe, Bob. “Maritime Master.” Times Educational Supplement, January 24, 1997. Dunlea, William. “Men and Nature.” Review of The Walker and Other Stories, by Patrick O’Brian. Commonweal, September 23, 1956.
“Dust of Battle.” Review of The Golden Ocean, by Patrick O’Brian. Times Literary Supplement, May 11, 1956.
Fairchild, Tony, ed. A School Apart: A History of Shebbear College. Guildford and King’s Lynn, England: Old Shebbearians Association, [1987?].
“Family Failings.” Review of The Frozen Flame, by Patrick O’Brian. Times Literary Supplement, September 18, 1953.
Fenton, Ben. “The Secret Life of Patrick O’Brian.”Daily Telegraph, October 24, 1998.
————. “Brotherly Love Behind a Hero of the High Seas.” Daily Telegraph, October 29, 1998.
Fisher, Margery. “Books for the Children.” Review of The Road to Samarcand, by
Patrick O’Brian. Housewife. June 1955. Fitz-Gibbon, Constantine. London’s Burning. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970.
“Foul-weather Jack.” Review of The Unknown Shore, by Patrick O’Brian. Times Literary Supplement, July 24, 1959.
Gaunt, William. Chelsea. London: B. T. Batsford, 1954.
Gibson, Wilfrid. “Six New Novels.” Review of Hussein, by R P. Russ. Manchester Guardian, April 22, 1938.
Gill, Brendan. “Small Towns.” Review of The Catalans, by Patrick O’Brian. New Yorker, October 24, 1953.
Gilot, Francoise, and Carlton Lake. Life with Picasso. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Goudeket, Maurice. The Delights of Growing Old. Trans. Patrick O’Brian. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Akadine Press, 1996.
Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-impressionist, and Early Modern. New York: Alfred A. Knopf in association with Lincoln University Press, 1993.
Grossman, Anne Chotzinoff, and Lisa Grossman Thomas. Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It’s a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey Maturin Novels. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
Guttridge, Peter. “A Landlubber Beneath the Stuns’l Boom Iron.” Independent, July3, 1993.
Hart-Davis, Rupert. Halfway to Heaven: Concluding Memoirs of a Literary Life. Thrupp, England: Sutton, 1998.
Hastings, Max. “ Books of the Year.” Review of The Wine-Dark Sea, by Patrick O’Brian. Daily Telegraph, November 27, 1993.
———. “Will They Set Sail Again?” Daily Telegraph, September 3, 1994.
———. “The Great Adventurer.” Review of The Hundred Days, by Patrick O’Brian.
Evening Standard, August 10, 1998.
“Hidden Powers.” Review of Hidden Powers, by Charles Russ. Lancet, August 1, 1931.
Hobbs, Harry. The Romance of the Calcutta Sweep. Calcutta: H. Hobbs, 1930.
“Hopefull Travellers.” Review of A Book of Voyages, by Patrick O’Brian. Punch,
November 12, 1947.
Horowitz, Mark. “Down to the Sea in Ships.” Los Angeles Times, September 8, 1991.
———. “Patrick O’Brian’s Ship Comes In.” New York Times Magazine, May 16, 1993.
Hough, Richard, and Denis Richards. The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II. New York: W. W. Norton, 1989.
Hunt, Geoff. “Geoff Hunt RSMA.” In The Tall Ship in Art, by Roy Cross et al. London: Blandford, 1998.
Hutchison, Percy. “Elephant Boy.” Review of Hussein: An Entertainment, by R. P. Russ. New York Times Book Review, May 8, 1938.
“In Three Dimensions.” Review of Richard Temple, by Patrick O’Brian. Times Literary Supplement, June 1, 1962.
Jones, Welton. “Virtual Reality, 19th-century British Navy Style.” Review of The Commodore, by Patrick O’Brian. San Diego Union-Tribune, May 2, 1995.
Judd, Alan. “Writer on the Crest of a Wave.” Daily Telegraph, February 3, 1992.
———. “Men of War.” Review of Clarissa Oakes, by Patrick O’Brian. Sunday Times, March 15,1992.
–––––. “The Winning-Post at Last.” Spectator, July 1, 1995.
Kazin, Pearl. “Outsider in the Valley.” Review of Testimonies, by Patrick O’Brian. New York Times Book Review, August 24, 1952.
Keene, Frances. “Xavier the Cold Fish.” Review of The Catalans, by Patrick O’Brian. New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1953.
Kerr, David. “Repelling all Boarders.” Daily Telegraph, September 26, 1998.
———, prod. “Close Up: Patrick O’Brian, Nothing Personal.” BBC 2, September 30, 1998.
Kludas, Arnold. Great Passenger Ships of the World. Vol. 2, 1913–23. Cambridge: Stephens, 1975–77.
Korg, Jacob. Dylan Thomas. Boston: Twayne, 1965.
La Farge, Oliver. “That Motherly Land.” Review of Testimonies, by Patrick O’Brian. Saturday Review, August 23,1952.
———. “Frenchmen from the Pyrenees.” Review of The Catalans, by Patrick O’Brian. Saturday Review, October 17, 1953.
Lambert, J. W. “New Novels.” Review of The Frozen Flame, by Patrick O’Brian. Sunday Times, September 27, 1953.
Laski, Marghanita. “First Time Lucky.” Review of The Frozen Flame, by Patrick O’Brian. Observer, September 13, 1953.
Levin, Martin. Review of Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brian. New York Times Book Review, December 14, 1969.
Lewin, Tamar. “Hooked on Boy Books.” New York Times Magazine, July 23,1995.
Lockhart, Sir Robert Bruce. Comes the Reckoning. London: Putnam, 1947.
Low, Valentine. “The Master Takes Command at Greenwich.” Evening Standard, October 14, 1996.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. Select Essays of Macaulay. Ed. Samuel Thurber. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1891.
Mailer, Norman. Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.
Mann, Jessica. “A Man from a Better Age.” Sunday Telegraph, December 15, 1996.
McGrath, Charles. “The Long Journey.” Review of The Wine-Dark Sea, by Patrick O’Brian. New Yorker, October 18, 1993. Mosley, Leonard.
Backs to the Wall: The Heroic Story of the People of London During World War II. New York: Random House, 1971.
Mosley, Leonard, and editors of Time-Life Books. Battle of Britain, WWII. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1977.
Murdoch, Iris. Under the Net. New York: Viking Press, 1954.
Myers, Kevin. “An Irishman’s Diary.” Irish Times, January 16, 1997.
“Nature Books.” Review of Beasts Royal, by Patrick Russ. Times Literary Supplement, November 22, 1934.
“New Fiction.” Review of The Frozen Flame, by Patrick O’Brian. Times, September 12, 1953.
Niall, Ian. Portrait of a Country Artist. London: Gollancz, 1980.
Nolen, Barbara. “Of, by and for Children.” Review of Caesar, by Patrick Russ. New York Herald Tribune, August 9, 1931.
“Novelties in Fur.” The Queen, The Lady’s Newspaper. London: Horace Cox, October 30, 1880.
O’Brian, Patrick. See also Russ, Patrick.
The Aubrey-Maturin Novels:
———. Master and Commander. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1969; London: Collins,1970; New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.
———. Post Captain. London: Collins, 1972; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1972; New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.
———. H.M.S. Surprise. London: Collins, 1973; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1973; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
———. The Mauritius Command. London: Collins, 1977; New York: Stein and Day, 1978; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
———. Desolation Island. London: Collins, 1978; New York: Stein and Day, 1979; New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.
———. The Fortune of War. London: Collins, 1979; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
———. The Surgeon’s Mate. London: Collins, 1980; New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
———. The Ionian Mission. London: Collins, 1981; New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
———. Treason’s Harbour. London: Collins, 1983; New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
———. The Far Side of the World. London: Collins, 1984; New York: W. W.
Norton, 1992.
———. The Reverse of the Medal. London: Collins, 1986; New York: W. W.
Norton, 1992.
———. The Letter of Marque. London: Collins, 1988; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
———. The Thirteen Gun Salute. London: Collins, 1989; New York: W. W.
Norton, 1991.
———. The Nutmeg of Consolation. London: Collins, 1991; New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
———. Clarissa Oakes. London: HarperCollins, 1992; subsequently published as The Truelove, New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
———. The Wine-Dark Sea. London: HarperCollins, 1993; New York: W. W. Norton,1993.
———. The Commodore. London: HarperCollins, 1994; New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.
———. The Yellow Admiral. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996; London: HarperCollins, 1997.
———. The Hundred Days. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998; London: HarperCollins, 1998.
Other Works:
———, ed. A Book of Voyages. London: Home and Van Thal, 1947.
———. The Last Pool and Other Stories. London: Seeker and Warburg, 1950.
———. Three Bear Witness. London: Seeker and Warburg, 1952; subsequently published as Testimonies, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.
———. “Song.” Poetry Ireland, April 1952.
———. “The Green Creature.” Harper’s Bazaar, December 1952.
———. The Catalans. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1953; subsequently published as The Frozen Flame, London: Hart-Davis, 1953.
———. “Samphire.” Harper’s Bazaar, March 1953.
———. “The Walker.” Harper’s Bazaar, October 1953.
———. The Road to Samarcand. London: Hart-Davis, 1954.
———. “The Slope of the High Mountain.” Harper’s Bazaar, January 1954.
———. The Walker and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1955; subsequently published as Lying in the Sun and Other Stories, London: Hart-Davis, 1956.
———. “Lying in the Sun.” Harper’s Bazaar, August 1955.
———. The Golden Ocean. London: Hart-Davis, 1956; New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.
———. The Unknown Shore. London: Hart-Davis, 1959; New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.
———. Richard Temple. London: Macmillan, 1962.
———, trans. Papillon, by Henri Charrière. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1970.
———, trans. Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon, by Henri Charrière. New York: William Morrow, 1973.
———. The Chian Wine and Other Stories. London: Collins, 1974.
———. “A Sung Landscape Remembered.” Cornhill Magazine, summer 1974.
———. Pablo Ruiz Picasso: A Biography. London: Collins, 1976; New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.
———. “In Upper Lesson Street.” Irish Press, March 5, 1977.
———. Joseph Banks: A Life. London: Collins Harvill, 1987; Boston: Godine, 1993.
———. “A Life in the Day of Patrick O’Brian.” Sunday Times Magazine, November 5, 1989.
———. “Great Encounters.”. Review of The Price of Admiralty, by John Keegan.
London Review of Books, January 11, 1990.
———. “Das Boot.” Review of The U-Boat War in the Atlantic, 1939–1945, by Günter Hessler, and Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars, 1916–1945, by John Terraine. London Review of Books, August 30, 1990.
———. “The Great War.” In Edwardian Brooks’s: A Social History, ed. Philip Ziegler and Desmond Sewald. London: Constable, 1991.
———. “What Boswell Didn’t Tell Us About Johnson.” Review of The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell. Daily Telegraph, August 22, 1992.
———. “Just a Phase I’m Going Through?” Weekend Telegraph, August 27, 1994.
———. The Collected Short Stories. London: HarperCollins, 1994; subsequently published as The Rendezvous and Other Stories. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.
———. “Second Thoughts: Pleasure and Painting in Spain.” Independent, January 14,1995.
———.“The Clockmaker’s Prize.” Review of Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius. Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, by Dava Sobel. Sunday Telegraph, August 11, 1996.
———. Foreword to The Drake Manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Histoire Naturelle des Indes. London: Andre Deutsch, 1996.
Conversations with Patrick O’Brian
“Third Ear.” Interview by Alan Judd. BBC Radio, October3, 1992.
Interview by Neil Conan. Talk of the Nation. National Public Radio, April 17, 1995.
Panel discussion. 92nd Street Y. New York: April 17, 1995.
“Patrick O’Brian in Conversation with Richard Hass.” Hosted by Maya Angelou. City Arts of San Francisco, April 19, 1995.
Interview by Neute Berger. Portland Arts and Lectures, April 21, 1995.
Interview by Charlton Heston. UCLA Friends of English, April 24,1995.
“Author Chats.” Interview by Richard Snow. Barnesandnoble.com, 1998.
“The Giant O’Brian.”Amazon.com interview, 1998.
O’Connor, Philip. Living in Croesor. London: Hutchinson, 1962.
Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878—Official Catalogue of the British Section. Published by direction of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales KG, etc., etc., president of the royal commission for Great Britain and Ireland. London: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswode, printers to the queen’s most excellent majesty. For Her Majesty’s stationery office, 1878.
Poland, F. Rexford. “A Short History of the British Fur Trade.” British Fur Trade Year Book. London: Hutchinson, 1933.
“Poor Painter Analysed.” Review of Picasso, 1881–1972, by Patrick O’Brian. Irish Press, December 15, 1973.
Powers, Katherine A. “An Eighteenth-Century Voice.” Review of The Commodore, by Patrick O’Brian. Atlantic Monthly, July 1995.
Pratter, Frederick. “Battling Slavers off the West Coast of Africa.” Review of The Commodore, by Patrick O’Brian. Christian Science Monitor, May 2, 1995.
Prial, Frank. “The Seas of Adventure Still Beckon a Storyteller.” New York Times, October 19, 1998.
Ranger, Sir Douglas. The Middlesex Hospital Medical School Centenary to Sesquicentenary, 1935–1985. London: Hutchinson Benham, 1985.
Ringle, Ken. “Is This the Best Writer You Never Heard Of?” Washington Post, August 2, 1992.
Review of Caesar, by Patrick Russ. Saturday Review of Literature, September 5,1931.
Review of Hussein, by Patrick Russ. Times Literary Supplement, April 23,1938.
Review of Hussein, by Patrick Russ. Saturday Review of Literature, July 9,1938.
Rothnie, Niall. The Baedeker Blitz: Hitler’s Attack on Britain’s Historic Cities. Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan, 1992.
Rothwell, Robert L., ed. Henry David Thoreau, An American Landscape: Selected Writings from His Journals. New York: Paragon House, 1991.
“Round the Christmas Shelves.” Review of Caesar, by Patrick Russ. New Statesman, December 6, 1930.
Russ, A. B. Lady Day Prodigal. Victoria, British Columbia: A. B. Russ, 1989.
Russ, Charles. “Further Results in the Electrolysis Treatment of Cystitis.” Lancet, October 31, 1914.
Russ, Emily Callaway. Daybook, 1893–1906. Courtesy of John Russ.
Russ, Patrick. Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda Leopard. London and New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930. Subsequently published under author name Patrick O’Brian. Boston Spa: The British Library, 1999.
———. “Skogula—the Sperm Whale.” Chums, October 24, 1931, 314-15.
———. “Wang Khan of the Elephants.” In The Oxford Annual for Scouts, ed. Herbert Strang, 107–12. London: Oxford University Press, 1933.
———. “A Tale About a Great Peregrine Falcon.” Great-Heart: The Church of Scotland Magazine—for Boys and Girls, March 1933, 50–52.
———. Beasts Royal. London: Putnam, 1934.
———. “The White Cobra.” In The Oxford Annual for Scouts, ed. Herbert Strang, 66–70. London: Oxford University Press, 1934.
———. “Cheetah.” In The Oxford Annual for Boys, ed. Herbert Strang, 144–52. London: Oxford University Press, 1935.
———. “Noughts and Crosses.” In The Oxford Annual for Boys, ed. Herbert Strang. London: Oxford University Press, 1936.
———. “Two’s Company.” In The Oxford Annual for Boys, ed. Herbert Strang, –18. London: Oxford University Press, 1937.
———. Hussein: An Entertainment. London: Oxford University Press, 1938. Subsequently published under author name Patrick O’Brian. Boston Spa: The British Library, 1999.
———. “One Arctic Summer.” In The Oxford Annual for Boys, ed. Herbert Strang, 88–96. London: Oxford University Press, 1938.
———. “No Pirates Nowadays.” In The Oxford Annual for Boys, ed. Herbert Strang, 5–22. London: Oxford University Press, 1940.
Sacks, Captain John C. Furs and the Fur Trade. London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1923.
Schwartz, Delmore. “Long After Eden.” Review of Testimonies, by Patrick O’Brian. Partisan Review, December 1952.
Simson, Maria. “Patrick O’Brian: Full Speed Ahead at Norton.” Publishers Weekly, October 26, 1992.
Smith, Constance Babington. Rose Macaulay. London: Collins, 1972. Smith, Stevie. “New Novels.” Review of The Frozen Flame, by Patrick O’Brian. Spectator, September 18, 1953.
Snow, Richard. “An Author I’d Walk the Plank For.” New York Times Book Review, January 6, 1991.
Snyder, Marjorie. “Love Encounters Weird Perversion in Welsh Valley.” Review of Testimonies, by Patrick O’Brian. Washington Post, August 31, 1953.
Spufford, Francis. “Navigating Through Stormy Genres,” Independent, March 15, 1992.
“Stories and Anecdotes.” Review of The Last Pool, by Patrick O’Brian. Times Literary Supplement, September 1, 1950.
Strawson, Galen. “The Habit of Victory—in the Year 1815b.” Independent, December 29, 1996.
Sugrue, Thomas. “Regional Novels, War, and Tales of India.” Review of Hussein, by R. P. Russ. New York Herald Tribune Books, May 8, 1938. Teacher, James. “Incidents of the Seas.” Review of The Commodore, by Patrick O’Brian. Spectator, December 3, 1994.
Tolstoy, Nikolai. The Half-Mad Lord. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.
———. Tolstoys: Twenty-four Generations of Russian History, 1353–1983. New York: William Morrow, 1983.
van Thal, Herbert. The Tops of the Mulberry Trees. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1971.
Waldegrave, Rt. Hon. William. “Speech at the Painted Hall, Greenwich.” In The Yellow Admiral, by Patrick O’Brian, 265–68. London: HarperCollins, 1997.
Warburg, Fredric. An Occupation for Gentlemen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
———. All Authors Are Equal. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1973.
Warner, Oliver. “‘Are We Alone?’ Adventure Stories New and Old.” Time and Tide, April 23, 1955.
Whately, Rosaleen. “An Anti-hero Takes His Chance.” Review of Richard Temple, by Patrick O’Brian. Liverpool Daily Post, June 6, 1962.
Wheatley, Keith. “The Long Life of O’Brian,” Financial Times, January 11, 1997.
Williams, L. F. Rushbrook. Review of Hussein, by R P. Russ. South Asian Review, vol.34, 1938.
Wood, Derek, and Derek Dempster. The Narrow Margin: The Battle of Britain and the Rise of Air Power, 1930-40. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.
Wordsworth, Christopher. “Worldly Box of Tricks.” Review of Desolation Island, by Patrick O’Brian. Guardian, June 29, 1978.
Yardley, Jonathan. “Beat to Quarters.” Review of The Letter of Marque, by Patrick O’Brian. Washington Post, August 26, 1990.
———. “Capt. Aubrey, Making Waves.” Review of The Nutmeg of Consolation, by Patrick O’Brian. Washington Post, August 21, 1991.
———. “A Test of Your Sea Legs.” Review of The Yellow Admiral, by Patrick O’Brian. Washington Post, November 6, 1996.
Zaleski, Jerome A. “An Evening with O’Brian.” Philadelphia Lawyer, fall 1994.
Ziegler, Philip. London at War: 1939–1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.