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The Fortune of War, first published in 1979, is a novel in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, which includes twenty completed books. Some critics have found fault with the abrupt endings of The Fortune of War and other books in the series, saying that they do not finish conclusively but arbitrarily stop. But other critics argue that the books should not be thought of as discrete texts with traditional beginnings and endings but as a single incredibly long work, similar to other multivolume stories, such as Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

• A.

  To explain why many critics find the Aubrey/Maturin novels to be remarkably entertaining despite flaws in the novels' structures.

• B.

  To argue that the Aubrey/Maturin series should have the literary renown of A Dance to the Music of Time.

• C.

  To present a reason the unusual structure that O'Brian uses for The Fortune of War makes it one of his most complex books.

• D.

  To describe a characteristic of the Aubrey/Maturin novels and offer two differing viewpoints on this characteristic.