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Title: Let O'Brian's ghost rest: don't buy this edition!
Review: Patrick O'Brian, having devoted most of his life to rendering English prose with exacting precision; recreating the prolix syntax of the 19th century; and describing unfamiliar and complex activities and phenonema (e.g., all aspects of the operation of a square-rigged ship, tne fauna of the Galapagos) with piercing clarity, would roll over, "broach to", and sink six feet deeper in his grave if he could read the appalling omnibus edition of his masterwork, riddled as it is with lacunae of every description. Heed the warnings of other reviewers herein and stick with the individual editions. Honor the author!
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