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_The Hundred Days_, first published in 1998, 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 Hundred Days_ 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 Marcel Proust's _In Search of Lost Time_.
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
To present a reason the unusual structure that O'Brian uses for The Hundred Days makes it one of his most complex books
A
To argue that the Aubrey/Maturin series should have the literary renown of In Search of Lost Time
B
To describe a characteristic of the Aubrey/Maturin novels and offer two differing viewpoints on this characteristic
C
To explain why many critics find the Aubrey/Maturin novels to be remarkably entertaining despite flaws in the novels' structures
D