The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship’s open launch. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti …
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Onians’ remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilization and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mind, body, soul, and human destiny that are embodied in the myths and legends of the ancients
Nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O’Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in the UK. The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel AubreyMaturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, on which O’Brian continued working until his death in 2000.The novel is set at the turn of the 19th century
2015 novel by Irish author Edna O’Brien, who was 85 at the time of publication
Leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.
1939 novel by Irish writer Brian O’Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O’Brien
George Orwell’s collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following, in 4 volumes: An Age Like This, 1920-1940 My Country Right or Left, 1940-1943 As I Please, 1943-1946 In Front of Your Nose, 1946-1950 One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell …
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