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C.S. Forester

Born

in Cairo, Egypt

December 13, 1901

Died

April 02, 1966

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction, History

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Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure and military crusades. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare 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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Average rating: 4.21 · 165,030 ratings · 8,316 reviews · 182 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mr. Midshipman Hornblower 4.18 avg rating — 19,691 ratings — published 1950 — 226 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 13,795 ratings — published 1952 — 199 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beat to Quarters (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, # 6 ) 4.29 avg rating — 12,456 ratings — published 1937 — 213 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hornblower and the Hotspur (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #3) 4.32 avg rating — 12,221 ratings — published 1962 — 172 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Good Shepherd 4.18 avg rating — 10,640 ratings — published 1955 — 157 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hornblower and the Atropos (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #5) 4.25 avg rating — 10,118 ratings — published 1953 — 162 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ship of the Line (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #7) 4.32 avg rating — 8,876 ratings — published 1938 — 176 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flying Colours (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #8) 4.36 avg rating — 8,767 ratings — published 1938 — 162 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The African Queen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,405 ratings — published 1935 — 202 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Commodore Hornblower 4.26 avg rating — 8,620 ratings — published 1945 — 158 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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