Mr. Midshipman Hornblower - Hardcover

Forester, C. S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316290602 ISBN 13: 9780316290609

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1998

Synopsis

The inauspicious beginnings of Midshipman Hornblower and his spectacular rise to Lieutenant are described in this novel of adventure on the high seas

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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)

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: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0316290602
• ISBN 13: 9780316290609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310