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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
A Ship of the Line (1938)
Given command of the two-decker HMS Sutherland, Hornblower harries the Spanish and French coasts.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Rowland Hilder
Single-Handed (1929)
On the desolate Galapagos island of Resolution, Leading Seaman Albert Brown ties down a German cruiser.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
None
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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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
A. E. Barlow
To the Indies (1940)
A historical novel of Columbus’ third voyage.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Doris Hauman
George Hauman
Two-and-Twenty (1931)
The story of a pugilist poet who ends up a medical man.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Two-and-Twenty (1931)
The story of a pugilist poet who ends up a medical man.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
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.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
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.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Various
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.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Various
The Voyage of the Annie Marble (1929)
The author takes a small motor boat on the rivers of the France.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
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.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Young Hornblower (1960)
An omnibus containing Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower and Hornblower and the Atropos.
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Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Andrew Wyeth
The Young Hornblower (1964)
An omnibus containing Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, Hornblower and the Hotspur and Hornblower and the Crisis.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown