Mr. Midshipman Hornblower: 01 (Hornblower Saga (Paperback)) - Softcover

Forester, C S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316289124 ISBN 13: 9780316289122

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 1984

Synopsis

Horatio Hornblower, only seventeen years old, gets his sea legs in this "absolutely compelling" (San Francisco Chronicle) first installment of C. S. Forester's classic naval adventure series.

The year is 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Horatio Hornblower, a seventeen-year-old boy unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, is ordered to board a French merchant ship and take command of crew and cargo for the glory of England. Though not an unqualified success, this first naval adventure teaches the young midshipman enough to launch him on a series of increasingly glorious exploits. This novel -- in which young Horatio gets his sea legs, proves his mettle, and shows the makings of the legend he will become -- is the first of the eleven swashbuckling Hornblower tales that are today regarded as classic adventure stories of the sea.
"I recommend Forester to every literate I know." --Ernest Hemingway

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Review:

"Spellbinding."--Wall Street Journal

From the Back Cover:

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0316289124
• ISBN 13: 9780316289122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320