C. S. Forester is best known for his series of eleven historical novels about the early-nineteenth-century British naval officer Horatio Hornblower. A prolific writer, Forester had produced twenty-fou...
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In the following essay from the only full-length study of Forester, a revised reprint of a 1981 edition, Sternlicht presents a full description of all of the Hornblower novels, along with background s...
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In the following essay, a revised reprint of the 1981 edition of Sternlicht's book, Sternlicht discusses the strengths and shortcomings of two philosophically oriented novels which were not par...
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In the following essay, Forester's son reminisces about his father's often self-absorbed behavior.
My father, author of Captain Horatio Hornblower and other novels, was a storyteller,...
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In the following review, Mason discusses the 1999 A & E Hornblower series and reports on an interview with the star, Ioan Gruffudd.
It's rare these days to find old-fashioned virtues ...
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In the following essay, Grainger explores probable models for the character Horatio Hornblower.
C. S. Forester's fictional sailor of the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Horatio Hornblower, was an i...
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In the following essay, Hastings marks the centenary of Forester's birth with a retrospective of the author's works.
‘It was not long after dawn that Captain Hornblower came up...
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In the following review, Mason offers a positive assessment of the second series of television adaptations of the Hornblower stories.
Horatio Hornblower is back in another ripping, high-seas yarn. ...
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Theatrical and literary agents are taking leading roles in a corporate drama in London, resigning one after another from a major agency and threatening to take their clients with them.The exodus fr...
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