The British historical novelist C. S. Forester is best known as the creator of Horatio Hornblower, whose rise from midshipman to admiral and peer during the Napoleonic Wars is told in a series of twelve novels, beginning with ‘The Happy Return’. Two of the Hornblower novels, ‘A Ship of the Line’ and ‘Flying Colours’, were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. This comprehensive eBook presents Forester’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Forester’s life and works

* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts

* All the Hornblower novels and short stories, with individual contents tables

* Special ‘Hornblower Series in Narrative Order’ contents table, allowing you to navigate the series easily

* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* A selection of Forester’s other novels

* Collected WWII short stories

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

Hornblower Series in Narrative Order

Hornblower Novels

The Happy Return

A Ship of the Line

Flying Colours

The Commodore

Lord Hornblower

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

Lieutenant Hornblower

Hornblower and the Atropos

Hornblower in the West Indies

Hornblower and the Hotspur

Hornblower and the Crisis

Hornblower Short Stories

The Hand of Destiny

Hornblower and the Widow McCool

Hornblower’s Charitable Offering

Hornblower and His Majesty

The Last Encounter

Other Novels

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Brown on Resolution

The Peacemaker

The African Queen

The General

The Ship

The Good Shepherd

Short Stories

Collected Short Stories

Non-Fiction

Hunting the Bismarck

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