patrick o'brian

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Definition of patrick o'brian in English English dictionary

orig. Richard Patrick Russ born Dec. 12, 1914, near London, Eng. died Jan. 2, 2000, Dublin, Ire. British writer. He was the eighth of nine children; an early marriage ended in divorce, and after World War II he married again, changed his name, and moved to a small, secluded coastal town in France near the Spanish border. He received little critical notice until age 54, when he began publishing his 18th-century seafaring series featuring Capt. Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin; it eventually numbered 20 books (1969-99) and was compared with the works of Herman Melville, Anthony Trollope, and Marcel Proust

Hyphenation

Pat·rick o'brian

Turkish pronunciation

pätrîk ōbrayın

Pronunciation

/ˈpatrək ōˈbrīən/ /ˈpætrɪk oʊˈbraɪən/