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The Last Pool and Other Stories
1950 short story collection by Patrick O'Brian
The Last Pool and Other Stories is a 1950 collection of short stories by the English author Patrick O'Brian. It was his first published book under that name (though he had published several works under his birth name Patrick Russ as a teenager). The thirteen stories are largely about rural experiences, focusing on hunting, shooting and fishing. Published by Secker and Warburg, the collection included several stories that would later be republished in The Walker and other stories.[2] The collection was both a critical and financial success for O'Brian.