Mr Midshipman Hornblower - Softcover

Forester, C.S.

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140011153 ISBN 13: 9780140011159

Publisher: Penguin, 1973

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As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. Yet, from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. This is the first of eleven books chronicling the adventures of Horatio Hornblower.

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Review:

I recommend Forester to every literate I know (Ernest Hemingway)

I find Hornblower admirable, vastly entertaining (Sir Winston Churchill)

One of the best. Everyone interested in war, or in human nature, should read (Times Literary Supplement)

Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative (San Francisco Chronicle)

A master of the genre (New York Times)

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1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command ...

As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. With a character-forming duel, several chases and some strange tavern encounters, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea.

This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.

'Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative' San Francisco Chronicle

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