Richard Temple (novel)

Richard Temple
First edition (UK)
AuthorPatrick O'Brian
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical fiction
PublisherCollins (UK)
Norton (US)
Publication date
1962
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback) & Audio Book (Cassette, CD)
Pages256 pp (UK) & 335 pp (US)
OCLC62421217

Richard Temple is a 1962 novel by Patrick O'Brian, told in flashback as Temple, a British agent, lies in a Gestapo cell in occupied France. After prolonged torture, the protagonist examines his past life as a painter in London in the 1930s,[1] and describes his early erotic encounters.[2] The novel contains many details of the author's youthful life.[3]

The joy Temple feels when he realises that the Gestapo have accepted pseudo-Temple as the truth, and that he is therefore safe, is the converse of O’Brian’s agony when journalists, late in his life, broke down his own cover story.

— William Waldegrave

Bibliography

  • Richard Temple, London: Macmillan, 1962;
  • Richard Temple, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006, ISBN 978-0-393-06187-1

References

  1. ^ Fantastic Fiction
  2. ^ Tayler, Christopher (6 May 2021). "For Want of a Dinner Jacket". London Review of Books. 43 (9).
  3. ^ "Before the mast was rigged". October 2005.


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