C. S. Forester – Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

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This is C. S. Forester’s first Hornblower novel chronologically.

Horatio Hornblower, only seventeen years old, gets his sea legs in this “absolutely compelling” (San Francisco Chronicle) first instalment 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.

“I recommend Forester to every literate I know.” –Ernest Hemingway