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
The Peacemaker (1934)
A frustrated school master invents a ray that interrupts magnetic fields at a distance and attempts to force Britain to disarm.
Plain Murder (1930)
Three advertising men murder their boss to avoid dismissal, but one of them has developed a taste for murder.
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.
The Pursued (2011)
A mother avenges her daughter’s murder.
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.
Rifleman Dodd and the Gun (1942)
In the first of these two novels of the Peninsular campaign, a British infantryman is separated from his regiment and has to fight his way back through hostile territory. The Gun follows the fates of the men who use it to drive the French out of Spain.
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.
The Ship (1943)
Based on the second Battle of Sirte in 1942 between the Italian fleet and a British convoy relieving Malta.
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.
Ship of the Line (1938)
Given command of the two-decker HMS Sutherland, Hornblower harries the Spanish and French coasts.
A Ship of the Line (1938)
Given command of the two-decker HMS Sutherland, Hornblower harries the Spanish and French coasts.
Read online at archive.org.
Single-Handed (1929)
On the desolate Galapagos island of Resolution, Leading Seaman Albert Brown ties down a German cruiser.
The Sky and the Forest (1948)
An African tribal chief’s world is destroyed by Arab slavers and the incursions of the white men. There are two British dust jackets; the other has a pictorial jungle scene.
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To the Indies (1940)
A historical novel of Columbus’ third voyage.
George Hauman
Two-and-Twenty (1931)
The story of a pugilist poet who ends up a medical man.
U 97 (1931)
At the time of the Cuxhaven mutiny, a German U-boat attempts to attack the British grand fleet at Scapa Flow. A play in three acts.
Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy (1927)
The history of Italy from the Congress of Vienna to the rise of Mussolini through the life of King Victor Emmanuel II.
The Voyage of the Annie Marble (1929)
The author takes a small motor boat on the rivers of the France.
The 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.
Young Hornblower (1960)
An omnibus containing Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower and Hornblower and the Atropos.
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