The action of the Hornblower saga, a series of eleven novels and several short stories by C. S. Forester, begins in 1794. At that point in his life, Horatio Hornblower is a penniless, orphaned ...

As I mentioned a few years ago, I love Naomi Novik's Temeraire books. Horatio Hornblower with dragons about summarizes the general theme (the lead character is quite Hornblower-like), but of course ...

The war with France has been over for a year and Horatio Hornblower finds himself on land. With his ship, the Retribution, laid up and his promotion to Commander rescinded as a result, he finds ...

Still serving aboard the HMS Indefatigable, Horatio Hornblower has been promoted to acting Lieutenant. Neutral Spain has concluded a peace treaty with France and the British now have another enemy to ...

The exploits of one of Britain's greatest fictional naval adventurers have been filmed by Warner with spectacular success. Captain Horatio Hornblower has been brought to the screen as effervescent ...

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I'm an incredibly anal reviewer sometimes; I'll give you that. One of the things that bothers me the most is a poor adaptation of a book to a movie format. Well, dear readers, I take after my father, ...

Forester wrote 11 books about fictional Royal Navy officer Hornblower The Pursued - a crime novel written in 1935 by Horatio Hornblower creator CS Forester that was thought lost - is to be published ...