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C. S. Forester
(1899 - 1966)
Cecil Scott “C. S.” Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith. He was an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare.
His most notable works were the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston).
His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
Bibliography
Admiral Hornblower (1966)
Omnibus edition of Flying Colours, The Commodore, Lord Hornblower and Hornblower in the West Indies.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Charles Gorham
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (1958)
Hornblower has been promoted to Rear Admiral and has been named in command of the West Indies station, i.e. the Caribbean, with a squadron consisting of three frigates and fourteen brigs and schooners.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Dwight Shepler
The Adventures of John Wetherell (1953)
Extracts from an English seaman who was pressed into the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars.
Author(s):
John Porrit Wetherell
Illustrator(s):
Edward Gorey
John Porrit Wetherell
The African Queen (1935)
In Central Africa of 1914, Rose Sayer buries her brother then sets out on a boat called the African Queen for the adventure of a lifetime.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The African Queen (1940)
In Central Africa of 1914, Rose Sayer buries her brother then sets out on a boat called the African Queen for the adventure of a lifetime. This edition restores the author’s original ending.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
None
The Age of Fighting Sail (1956)
The fledgling United States Navy with its super frigates take on the best navy in the world.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Sydney Butchkes
Rafael Palacios
The Annie Marble in Germany (1930)
The author of the Hornblower saga takes a motor boat on the German inland waterways.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Barbary Pirates (1953)
The fledgling United States Navy takes on the lawless raiders of the Mediterranean.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Charles J. Mazoujian
Beat to Quarters (1937)
Captain Horatio Hornblower of the Lydia defeats the Spanish Natividad -- twice.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Bedchamber Mystery (1944)
A collection of short stories.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Brown on Resolution (1929)
On the desolate Galapagos island of Resolution, Leading Seaman Albert Brown ties down a German cruiser.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Ellis Silas
C. S. Forester’s Hornblower One More Time (1978)
Three uncollected Hornblower short stories and two essays by C. S. Forester. Fifty copies were accompanied by a pamphlet called ‘Hornblower’s Birthplace.’
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Captain from Connecticut (1941)
Captain Josiah Peabody takes his frigate, Delaware, to sea in the teeth of a British blockade during the War of 1812 and proceeds to devastate British shipping in the Caribbean.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Jan Doubrava
The Captain from Connecticut (1941)
Captain Josiah Peabody takes his frigate, Delaware, to sea in the teeth of a British blockade during the War of 1812 and proceeds to devastate British shipping in the Caribbean.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Captain Horatio Hornblower (3 volumes) (1939)
This uniform three volume set includes Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line and Flying Colours.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Captain Horatio Hornblower (omnibus) (1939)
This omnibus volume contains the first three adventures of Horatio Hornblower, R.N. Beat to Quarters, Ship of the Line and Flying Colors.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Captain Horatio Hornblower: a condensation of Beat to Quarters (1966)
This condensed version of Beat to Quarters is illustrated. The other contents of the volume include My Friend Flicka, Jane Eyre, and Alone.
Author(s):
Charlotte Brontë
Richard Evelyn Byrd
C. S. Forester
Mary O’Hara
Illustrator(s):
James E. Bama
Captain Hornblower, R.N. (1939)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Commodore (1945)
Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower, R.N. leads a squadron of British naval vessels on a military and diplomatic mission in the Baltic Sea.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
no first name Barbola
Commodore Hornblower (1945)
Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower, R.N. leads a squadron of British naval vessels on a military and diplomatic mission in the Baltic Sea.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth