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The Yellow Admiral, first published in 1996, is a novel in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey / Maturin series, which includes twenty books plus an unfinished fragment of a twenty-first. Like the rest of the books in the series, The Yellow Admiral has a rather abrupt ending, but the following book, The Hundred Days, picks up neatly where The Yellow Admiral leaves off. Thus, the sudden ending is only an issue if one considers the books as independent texts—the Aubrey / Maturin series is best thought of 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 idea of the text?
Over time, the Aubrey / Maturin series has Jrcquired the same eminence among critics as orks like In Search of Lost Time that have similar structures.
A
A certain understanding of the structures of the novels in the Aubrey / Maturin series is helpful if one wishes to appreciate the series.
B
Many readers find the Aubrey / Maturin novels to be remarkably entertaining despite flaws in the novels' structures.
C
The Yellow Admiral and The Hundred Days are two of the most complex of O'Brian's novels due in part to their unconventional structures.
D