C. S. Forester

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The British historical novelist C. S. Forester is best known as the creator of Horatio Hornblower, whose rise from midshipman to admiral and peer during the Napoleonic Wars is told in a series of twelve novels, beginning with ‘The Happy Return’. Two of the Hornblower novels, ‘A Ship of the Line’ and ‘Flying Colours’, were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. This comprehensive eBook presents Forester’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2)

Please note: this eBook is only for sale to customers currently located in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Thailand and any other 50 year countries due to copyright restrictions. European release year: 2037; estimated American year: 2062.

Description

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Forester’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* All the Hornblower novels and short stories, with individual contents tables
* Special ‘Hornblower Series in Narrative Order’ contents table, allowing you to navigate the series easily
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* A wide selection of Forester’s other novels
* Three short story collections
* Many non-fiction works
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

CONTENTS:

Hornblower Series in Narrative Order

Hornblower Novels
The Happy Return (1937)
A Ship of the Line (1938)
Flying Colours (1938)
The Commodore (1945)
Lord Hornblower (1946)
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
Hornblower in the West Indies (1958)
Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962)
Hornblower and the Crisis (1967)

Hornblower Short Stories
The Hand of Destiny (1941)
Hornblower and the Widow McCool (1950)
Hornblower’s Charitable Offering (1941)
Hornblower and His Majesty (1941)
The Last Encounter (1966)

Other Novels
A Pawn among Kings (1924)
Payment Deferred (1926)
Brown on Resolution (1929)
Plain Murder (1930)
Death to the French (1933)
The Gun (1933)
The Peacemaker (1934)
The African Queen (1935)
The General (1936)
The Earthly Paradise (1940)
The Captain from Connecticut (1941)
Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1942)
The Ship (1943)
The Sky and the Forest (1948)
The Barbary Pirates (1953)
The Good Shepherd (1955)

The Short Stories
Wanton Fate (1945)
The Nightmare (1954)
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)
Gold from Crete (1970)

The Non-Fiction
Napoleon and His Court (1924)
Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy (1927)
Nelson (1929)
Marionettes at Home (1936)
The Adventures of John Wetherell (1953)
The Naval War of 1812 (1957)
Hunting the Bismarck (1959)

The Memoir
Long before Forty (1967)

 

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