Aubrey, meanwhile, sails in a small boat with a few crewmen from the Franklin to San Lorenzo to warn Maturin of Dutourd's escape.

* A Great Auk is collected by fictional naturalist Stephen Maturin in the Patrick O ' Brian historical novel The Surgeon's Mate.

A late example of traditional Gothic is Melmoth the Wanderer ( 1820 ) by Charles Maturin which combines themes of Anti-Catholicism with an outcast Byronic hero ( Varma 1986 ).

The legendary villainy of the Spanish Inquisition, previously explored by Gothicists Radcliffe, Lewis, and Maturin, is revisited in " The Pit and the Pendulum " ( 1842 ).

* Whist is often enjoyed by Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin whilst at sea in the Aubrey – Maturin series of novels by Patrick O ' Brian.

Robert also printed numerous editions of Latin classics, of which perhaps the folio Virgil of 1532 is the most noteworthy, and a large quantity of Latin grammars and other educational works, many of which were written by Maturin Cordier, his friend and co-worker in the cause of humanism.

* The Aubrey – Maturin series of novels is a sequence of 20 historical novels by Patrick O ' Brian portraying the rise of Jack Aubrey from Lieutenant to Rear Admiral during the Napoleonic Wars.

The Aubrey – Maturin series by Patrick O ' Brian, set on the high seas during the Napoleonic Wars, is replete with references to portable soup.

One of the best known examples of coca's reference in fiction is Patrick O ' Brian's character, Stephen Maturin.

The Aubrey – Maturin sea novels of Patrick O ' Brian have frequent appearances by Sir Joseph Blaine, a Royal Navy intelligence official who is also an avid entomologist.

The Wandering Jew is also mentioned in Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin c. 1820.

Peter Weir's 2003 film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is loosely based on the novel The Far Side of the World from the Aubrey – Maturin series for its plot, but draws on a number of the novels for incidents within the film.

Fictional Naval Surgeon Stephen Maturin of Patrick O ' Brian's popular Aubrey – Maturin series series is a graduate of Trinity College.

The family was disputed to be of Anglo-Norman heritage, but this has no foundation, and due to his ancestor being named Mathurin ( Maturin ) Ballou ( Bellou ), a French given name not found anywhere in England or any such English versions of the name, an Anglo-Norman origin is highly unlikely.

* Tokaji is referred to in Patrick O ' Brian's The Letter of Marque shared between Stephen Maturin and Sir Joseph Blaine.

In the novel The Commodore ( novel ), Parker, a Bow Street Runner, is employed by Maturin and Sir Joseph Blaine to investigate the Duke of Habachtstal.

The influence of the gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe, Horace Walpole, Gregory " Monk " Lewis and Charles Maturin is noticeable, and that of Walter Scott too, if only because the heroine, abandoned and left alone, resists not only by her almost supernatural talents, but mainly due to the power drawn from her temperament.

John " Jack " Aubrey, is a fictional character in the Aubrey – Maturin series of novels by Patrick O ' Brian.

He is generally accompanied by his friend and shipmate Stephen Maturin on the cello.

* In chapter six of the novel Master and Commander by Patrick O ' Brian a volunteer seaman who reveals his past as a sin eater is ostracized by the crew, prompting a brief discussion between the characters Dr. Maturin and Lieutenant Dillon of traditions of sin eating in England and Ireland.

Maturin is located at 67 meters of altitude and 520 kilometres from the country's capital, Caracas.

Stephen Maturin () is a fictional character in the Aubrey – Maturin series of novels by Patrick O ' Brian.

Stephen Maturin ( Esteban Maturin y Domanova ), a Roman Catholic, is the illegitimate son of an Irish officer serving in the Spanish Army and a Catalan lady.

According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

Though the genre has evolved since its inception, the historical novel remains popular with authors and readers to this day ; bestsellers include Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

As well as his activities as a physician and agent, Maturin is a celebrated naturalist ( a member of the Royal Society ) with a particular interest in birds, and the discoverer, on a remote and uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean, of the hitherto unknown species of giant tortoise Testudo aubreii.

As a writer, Lewis is typically classified as writing in the horror-gothic genre along with authors Charles Robert Maturin and Mary Shelley.

Only a messenger vessel, with Maturin aboard, gets back to La Réunion to inform the commodore of the " ill tidings ".

They make their way to the Hunter Valley to stay with Paulton, and Maturin is reunited with his former assistant Padeen Colman at Woolloo-Woolloo.

The Irishman was convicted for stealing laudanum from an Edinburgh apothecary and, after being flogged with 200 lashes for absconding from the penal settlement, was transferred to Paulton's farm after Maturin bribed a local clerk.

The novel was adapted in three parts in the Afternoon Play strand on BBC Radio 4, adapted by Roger Danes and directed and produced by Bruce Young, with Aubrey played by David Robb and Maturin by Richard Dillane.

When he falls into financial difficulty, he leaves England with his friend Stephen Maturin.

After many tribulations and disagreements with Maturin and others, he is eventually successful in his career.

Stephen Maturin is also in personal trouble over his relationship with Diana Villiers and his laudanum addiction.

Maturin manipulates Herapath into deserting with Louisa Wogan ( pregnant with Herapath's baby ) to the American ship, having prepared some false intelligence which they carry with them.

Meanwhile Maturin meets up with fellow agent of the crown, Mr. Wallis, who apprises Stephen of the news from Britain and the successful progress of the intrigues involving Louisa Wogan.

Travelling with an extensive library in his cabin, Yorke is clearly a well-read man and Maturin warms to him immediately.

Aubrey spends his time during the voyage teaching the young midshipmen while Maturin is engrossed in dissections of collection of specimens from Desolation Island and New Holland with McLean, the ship's Scottish surgeon and a brilliant anatomical naturalist.

Constitution has to return to Boston to refit and during the voyage Maturin strikes up conversation with a French passenger, Pontet-Canet, and Mr. Evans, the amiable ship's surgeon.

Johnson visits Aubrey who, unawares, makes free with his comments about Maturin, only to realise his folly later in a bedside conversation with Stephen.

During a second attempt at abduction, Maturin escapes to Diana Villiers ' rooms in the Franchon hotel and kills both Frenchmen when they come searching for him.

Jack learns that she was smuggled aboard the frigate in Sydney by Midshipman Oakes and is at first determined to leave them both on Norfolk Island but has a change of heart after being dosed with laudanum by Maturin and allows the couple to stay aboard until they can be put off at a hospitable port.

Financial success, however, eluded Maturin, as the play's run coincided with his father's unemployment and another relative's bankruptcy, both of them assisted by the fledgling writer.