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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.
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One Wonderful Week (1927)
Bank clerk Harold Altridge enters on a week of cataclysm after cataclysm -- a phantasmagoria of adventure, romance and mystery -- that leaves him half dead and the reader holding his sides with laughter.
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The Paid Piper (1924)
The adventures of a tramp among high and low.
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A Pawn Among Kings (1924)
The story of a Hungarian girl who plays a decisive part in the events that end at Waterloo.
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C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Frank Marston
Payment Deferred (1926)
William Marble did the murder. The question is, will fate let him get away with it?
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C. S. Forester
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Payment Deferred (1934)
William Marble did the murder, the question is, will fate let him get away with it? A play based on Forester’s novel which in turn served as the basis for a very successful movie starring Charles Laughton.
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Jeffrey Dell
C. S. Forester
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Payment Deferred (1942)
William Marble did the murder, the question is, will fate let him get away with it?
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C. S. Forester
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The Peacemaker (1934)
A frustrated school master invents a ray that interrupts magnetic fields at a distance and attempts to force Britain to disarm.
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The Peacemaker (1934)
A frustrated school master invents a ray that interrupts magnetic fields at a distance and attempts to force Britain to disarm.
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C. S. Forester
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Plain Murder (1930)
Three advertising men murder their boss to avoid dismissal, but one of them has developed a taste for murder.
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C. S. Forester
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Plain Murder (1930)
Three advertising men murder their boss to avoid dismissal, but one of them has developed a taste for murder.
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C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Bill George
Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1942)
The creator of Captain Horatio Hornblower, RN, made up these stories to help his little boy eat when he was sad because his mother was away.
Read online at archive.org.
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C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1942)
The creator of Captain Horatio Hornblower told this story to his little boy to help him eat when he was feeling sad because his mother was away on a visit.
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C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1968)
The inventor of Horatio Hornblower, RN made these stories to help his little boy eat when he was sad because his mother was away.
The cloth for the second printing binding has a much finer grain.
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C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Pursued (2011)
A mother avenges her daughter’s murder.
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C. S. Forester
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Randall and the River of Time (1950)
This attempt at a modern ‘problem’ novel did not find favor with the public, and the threatened sequels fortunately did not appear.
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C. S. Forester
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William Barss
Rifleman Dodd and the Gun (1942)
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C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Warren Chappell
The Shadow of the Hawk (1928)
Having just escaped from an island prison more deadly than Devil’s Island, Dawkins knew better than to get involved with young Nina, but finds it impossible to resist.
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C. S. Forester
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Unknown
The Ship (1943)
Based on the second Battle of Sirte in 1942 between the Italian fleet and a British convoy relieving Malta.
Read online at archive.org.
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C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
A. E. Barlow
The Ship (1943)
Based on the second Battle of Sirte in 1942 between the Italian fleet and a British convoy relieving Malta.
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C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Tom Lea
Ship of the Line (1938)
Given command of the two-decker HMS Sutherland, Hornblower harries the Spanish and French coasts.
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C. S. Forester
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