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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
Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
Hornblower ships as fifth lieutenant in HMS Renown with a mad captain on a mission to harry Spanish possession in the Caribbean. Was he pushed or did he fall?
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Long Before Forty (1967)
An autobiographical fragment about the author’s early attempts to become a published author, added to his notes about the Hornblower saga published in The Hornblower Companion.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
None
Lord Hornblower (1946)
In the process of capturing HMS Flame, which has been taken over by mutineers, Hornblower takes the port of Le Havre.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Paul Laume
Lord Hornblower (1946)
In the process of capturing HMS Flame, which has been taken over by mutineers, Hornblower takes the port of Le Havre.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Andrew Wyeth
Lord Nelson (1929)
A biography of Britain’s greatest Admiral, based on his letters and dispatches.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Various
Louis XIV: King of France and Navarre (1928)
A biography of the long reigning ‘Sun King’ of France, builder of Versailles.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Love Lies Dreaming (1927)
A writer’s story of courtship and marriage.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Love Lies Dreaming (1927)
A writer’s story of courtship and marriage.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)
A collection of eight short stories of men at war in World War II.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)
A collection of eight short stories of men at war in World War II.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Marionettes at Home (1936)
A writer on his hobby.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
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Photographs
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
The future admiral begins his career in the Justinian and is seasick off Spithead.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Andrew Wyeth
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
The future admiral begins his career in the Justinian and is seasick off Spithead.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Val Biro
Napoleon and His Court (1924)
A history of the Napoleonic empire’s court.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Various
Napoleon and His Court (1924)
A history of the Napoleonic empire’s court.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Various
The Naval War of 1812 (1957)
The fledgling Unites States Navy with its superfrigates takes on the world’s greatest navy. This British edition has plates lacking in the American edition.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Rafael Palacios
Various
The Nightmare (1954)
Ten fictionalized stories of Nazi atrocities.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Peter Rudland
The Nightmare (1954)
Ten stories based on Nazi atrocities, as documented at the Nuremberg trials.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
David Soshensky
Nurse Cavell (1933)
A play based on the life of Edith Cavell, a British nurse working in Belgium during World War I who was shot by a German military tribunal for assisting allied soldiers to escape to neutral Holland.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
C. E. Bechhofer Roberts
Illustrator(s):
Unknown