![]() ![]() With demand for more stories, Forester filled in Hornblower's life story, in effect. The last completed novel was published in 1962. He began the series with Hornblower fairly high in rank in the first novel, published in 1937. He is best known for the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own "accursed unhappy temperament"-matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs. Horatio Hornblower-who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy-commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Hornblower and the Crisis įiction, historical, seafaring, war, Napoleonic WarsĪpril 1803. Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton Writing under the pseudonym: Forester, C. ![]()
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