The Horatio Hornblower Collection: Including 10 Novels & 4 Short Stories

by C.S. Forester

Horatio Hornblower was a fictional Napoleonic Wars era Royal Navy officer whose adventures formed a series of novels by C. S. Forester (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966). This collection includes the 10 Novels & 4 Short Stories written by C. S. Forester whilst he was alive and are presented in their original publication The Happy Return A Ship of the Line Flying Colours "Hornblower and His Majesty" "Hornblower and the Hand of Destiny" "Hornblower's Charitable Offering" The Commodore Lord Hornblower Mr. Midshipman Hornblower "Hornblower and the Big Decision" Lieutenant Hornblower Hornblower and the Atropos Hornblower in the West Indies Hornblower and the Hotspur

2493 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 21, 2018

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Barry Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

C E Forester is an amazing story teller. His fictional Hornblower is a study of an incredible man as he grows through the trappings of the British navy. He puts you on board the ships before, during and after the Napoleonic wars. Action, desperate moves to stay alive and afloat in ships of the line in storms and bloody battles.
60 hours of un put down able reading. I just wished there was 60 more hours.
The unfinished novel at the end was just beginning when Forester died. Such a shame it could not be finished.
It does not get any better for this avid reader.

[Lorraine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entertaining all the way through. The exciting life of Horatio Hornblower had me turning the page as quickly as possible. It was fun running the high seas fighting the good fight for good ole jolly England.