C.S. Forester

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C.S. Forester


Born
in Cairo, Egypt
December 13, 1901

Died
April 02, 1966

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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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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

4.18 avg rating — 18,977 ratings — published 1950 — 3 editions
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Lieutenant Hornblower (Horn...

4.32 avg rating — 13,371 ratings — published 1952 — 13 editions
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Beat to Quarters (Hornblowe...

4.29 avg rating — 12,133 ratings — published 1937 — 4 editions
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Hornblower and the Hotspur ...

4.32 avg rating — 11,841 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions
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The Good Shepherd

4.18 avg rating — 10,174 ratings — published 1955 — 2 editions
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Hornblower and the Atropos ...

4.25 avg rating — 9,791 ratings — published 1953
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Ship of the Line (Hornblowe...

4.32 avg rating — 8,643 ratings — published 1938 — 180 editions
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Flying Colours (Hornblower ...

4.35 avg rating — 8,485 ratings — published 1938 — 164 editions
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The African Queen

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,197 ratings — published 1935 — 38 editions
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Commodore Hornblower

4.26 avg rating — 8,351 ratings — published 1945 — 158 editions
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“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”
C.S. Forester, The African Queen

“Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet those headless corpses up there in Muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those Frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister -- they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed.”
C.S. Forester, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

“I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.”
C.S. Forester, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
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