COMMODORE HORNBLOWER — C. S. Forester — Little, Brown ($2.50). “Get out my best uniform and sword! Have the horses put to in my chariot!” bellowed Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower when the Admiralty ...
The action of the Hornblower saga, a series of eleven novels and several short stories by C. S. Forester, begins in 1794. At that point in his life, Horatio Hornblower is a penniless, orphaned ...
LORD HORNBLOWER (322 pp.)—C. S. Forester—Liftie, Brown ($2.50). H.M.S. Flame, 18-gun brig, lies hove to near the French coast. “Insolent rascals, mutinous dogs,” splutters the First Lord of the ...