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The Happy Return

(Beat to Quarters)

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Author(s):C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):Rowland Hilder
Publisher(s): Michael Joseph, Ltd.
Year Published: 1937
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Adventure
British
Fiction - Novel
Historical Fiction - Napoleonic Wars
Sea Stories
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 287
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
ISBN-10: 024195553X
ISBN-13: 9780241955536
OCLC: 603433042

Description

Captain Horatio Hornblower in the Lydia defeats the much larger Spanish Natividad, only to have to fight her again.

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Other Editions

Beat to Quarters (1937)

Captain Horatio Hornblower of the Lydia defeats the Spanish Natividad -- twice.

Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
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Hornblower Takes Command (1965)

This omnibus edition of Hornblower and the Atropos and Beat to Quarters (The Happy Return) has been edited for younger readers and is Volume 2 of the Cadet Edition.

Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
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Hornblower Takes Command (1965)

This omnibus edition of Hornblower and the Atropos and Beat to Quarters (The Happy Return) has been edited for younger readers and is Volume 2 of the Cadet Edition.

Publisher: Michael Joseph, Ltd.
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