The Complete Aubrey / Maturin Series, in Twenty Volumes: Master and Commander; Post Captain; H.M.S. Surprise; The Mauritius Command; Desolation Island; The Fortune of War; The Surgeon's Mate; The Ionian Mission; Treason's Harbour; The Far Side of the Wor…

The complete series of twenty novels published during O'Brian's lifetime, plus the companion volume A Sea of Words - does not include the posthumously published 21st novel, which was compiled from fragments of his work. "The Aubrey - Maturin series is a sequence of historical novels - 20 completed and one unfinished - by Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centering on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also a physician, natural philosopher, and secret agent."