"Horatio Hornblower Horatio Hornblower is a fictional Napoleonic Wars-era Royal Navy officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. He was later the subject of films, radio and television programmes, and C. Northcote Parkinson elaborated a definitive biography The original Hornblower tales began with the 1937 novel ""The Happy Return"" (U.S. title ""Beat to Quarters"") with the appearance of a junior Royal Navy captain on independent duty on a secret mission to Central America. Later stories filled out his earlier years, starting with an unpromising beginning as a seasick midshipman. As the Napoleonic Wars"
"Hand of Destiny, Hornblower and the Widow McCool, Hornblower's Charitable Offering, Hornblower and His Majesty"", and ""The Last Encounter"" although two of these are also included in the book ""Hornblower During the Crisis"". The Hornblower novels were all serialised in US periodicals and most also in UK periodicals. Except for the first novel ""Beat to Quarters"", the serialisations appeared before the books. Ernest Hemingway is quoted as saying, ""I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know,"" and Winston Churchill stated, ""I find ""Hornblower"" admirable."" The popular Richard Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell were inspired by the Hornblower series; Cornwell avidly"
"Flying Colours (novel) Flying Colours is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester, originally published 1938 as the third in the series, but now eighth by internal chronology. It describes the adventures of Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England. It is one of three ""Hornblower"" novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film ""Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N."". At the end of the previous novel, ""A Ship of the Line"", after attacking and severely damaging a superior French squadron with HMS ""Sutherland"", Hornblower had to surrender his ship to the French. He and"
"C. S. Forester Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott ""C. S."" Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. Two of the Hornblower books, ""A Ship of the Line"" and ""Flying Colours"", were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include ""The African Queen"" (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). Forester was born in Cairo and, after a family"
"officers with extra income). Together with the money from prizes taken while he was captain of the ""Sutherland"" and from his recapture of the ""Witch of Endor"", he is finally financially secure and free to court and marry Lady Barbara. Flying Colours (novel) Flying Colours is a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester, originally published 1938 as the third in the series, but now eighth by internal chronology. It describes the adventures of Hornblower and his companions escaping from imprisonment in Napoleonic France and returning to England. It is one of three ""Hornblower"" novels adapted into the 1951 British-American"
"books in the series refer to Hornblower capturing the ""Castilla"" as a lieutenant, but he is a captain in this book, which actually describes the battle. Confusingly, the obscure short story ""The Hand of Destiny"" (1940) also describes an entirely different action featuring Lieutenant Hornblower capturing the ""Castilla"". Forester, apparently, would retcon Hornblower's history, overwriting the events of his short stories in subsequent novel-length works. ""The fact that he discouraged the re-publication of the short stories is an indicator that he gave the novels' events preference."" Hornblower and the Atropos Hornblower and the Atropos is a 1953 historical novel by"
"earlier—it’s impossible to imagine a Hornblower volume like this. ... I very much like the whole intrigue with Johnson and the French and Stephen—it’s as exciting as the sea chases, but in a very different way. There’s a lot of very good Stephen in this volume—and some wonderful Jack malopropisms. This novel was first published by Collins in the UK. There was no US publisher until W W Norton issued a reprint 12 years after the initial publication as part of its reissue in paperback of all the novels in the series prior to 1991. The process of reissuing the"
"an outline in ""The Hornblower Companion"". The first three novels written, ""The Happy Return"", ""A Ship of the Line"", and ""Flying Colours"" were collected as ""Captain Horatio Hornblower"" (1939) by Little Brown in the US. Both a single-volume edition and a three-volume edition (in a slip case) were published. ""Mr. Midshipman Hornblower"", ""Lieutenant Hornblower"", and ""Hornblower and the Atropos"" were compiled in one book, variously titled ""Hornblower's Early Years"", ""Horatio Hornblower Goes to Sea"", or ""The Young Hornblower"". ""Hornblower and the Atropos"" was replaced by ""Hornblower and the Hotspur"" in later UK editions of ""The Young Hornblower"". ""Hornblower and the"
"Anthony Horowitz Anthony Horowitz, OBE (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His work for young adult readers includes ""The Diamond Brothers"" series, the ""Alex Rider"" series, and ""The Power of Five"" series (a.k.a. ""The Gatekeepers""). His work for adults includes the play ""Mindgame"" (2001); two Sherlock Holmes novels ""The House of Silk"" (2011) and ""Moriarty"" (2014); ""Magpie Murders"" (2016) and ""The Word Is Murder"" (2017). He was also chosen to write James Bond novels by the Ian Fleming estate, starting with ""Trigger Mortis"" (2015). He has also written for television, contributing"
"three ""Hornblower"" novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film ""Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N."". In June 1808, Hornblower is in command of the 36-gun frigate HMS ""Lydia"", with orders to sail to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua (near modern Choluteca, Choluteca) and supply a local landowner, Don Julian Alvarado (""descendant"" of Pedro de Alvarado by a fictional marriage to a daughter of Moctezuma), with muskets and powder. Don Julian is ready to revolt against the Spanish (at this point allied with Napoleon). Upon meeting Don Julian, however, Hornblower discovers he is an insane megalomaniac calling himself ""El Supremo"" (""the Almighty"") who"
"career. In ""The Happy Return"", the first novel published, Hornblower's age is given as 37 in July 1808, implying a birth year of 1770 or 1771. However, when Forester decided to write about Hornblower's early career in the sixth novel ""Mr. Midshipman Hornblower"", he made his hero about five years younger, giving his birth date as 4 July 1776 (the date of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence). This adjustment allows Hornblower to begin his career in wartime. He is given a classical education, and by the time he joins the Royal Navy at age seventeen, he"
"""Lieutenant Hornblower""; ""Hornblower Takes Command"" (1953, 1954), from ""Hornblower and The Atropos"" and ""Beat To Quarters""; ""Hornblower in Captivity"" (1939, 1955), from ""A Ship of the Line"" and ""Flying Colours""; and ""Hornblower's Triumph"" (1946, 1955), from ""Commodore Hornblower"" and ""Lord Hornblower"". The short stories ""The Hand of Destiny,"" ""Hornblower's Charitable Offering,"" and ""Hornblower and His Majesty"" plus other Hornblower material not previously published in book-form was collected in ""Hornblower One More Time"" (4 July 1976) though only 350 copies were printed. As at June 2017 Amazon offers an electronic (Kindle) omnibus, ""Hornblower Addendum"", consisting of the stories: ""Hornblower and the"
"Atropos"", ""The Happy Return"", and ""A Ship of the Line"" were compiled into one omnibus edition, called ""Captain Hornblower"". ""Flying Colours"", ""The Commodore"", ""Lord Hornblower"", and ""Hornblower in the West Indies"" were presented as a third omnibus edition called ""Admiral Hornblower"" to fill out the series. ""Commodore Hornblower"", ""Lord Hornblower"", and ""Hornblower in the West Indies"" were also compiled into one book, called ""The Indomitable Hornblower"". Four ""Cadet Editions"" were released by Little Brown and later by Michael Joseph, each collecting two Hornblower novels and edited for younger readers: ""Hornblower Goes to Sea"" (1953, 1954), from ""Mr. Midshipman Hornblower"" and"
"The Commodore The Commodore (published 1945) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester. It was published in the United States under the title ""Commodore Hornblower"". Having achieved fame and financial security, Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower has married Lady Barbara Leighton (née Wellesley) and is preparing to settle down to unaccustomed life as the squire of Smallbridge in Kent. He still yearns to serve at sea and accepts with alacrity when the Admiralty appoints him a commodore, puts him in command of a squadron and sends him on a diplomatic and military mission to the Baltic. His primary"
"Dahl about his experiences as a fighter pilot. This prompted Dahl to write his first story, ""A Piece of Cake"". Forester wrote many novels. He is best known for the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars. He began the series with Hornblower fairly high in rank in the first novel, published in 1937. The last completed novel was published in 1962. With demand for more stories, Forester filled in Hornblower's life story, in effect. Hornblower's fictional feats were based on real events, but Forester wrote the body of the works carefully to avoid"
"June 1805. Captain Sawyer, commander of the ship of the line HMS ""Renown"" in the Horatio Hornblower novel ""Lieutenant Hornblower"", is based on Captain Pigot, sharing many of the same mannerisms. Sawyer was portrayed by actor David Warner in the A&E miniseries ""Hornblower"" episodes ""Mutiny"" and ""Retribution"". The second novel in the Alexis Carew series, ""Mutineer"", by J. A. Sutherland, takes nearly the entire account of the mutiny, down to the gasket being a source of contention for Midshipman Carew, and puts it in a science fiction setting involving a futuristic HMS ""Hermione"" under the command of a Captain Neals."
"in Edinburgh while he worked for BBC Northern Ireland; she was a travel agent from the US and the mother of three children from a previous marriage. He relocated to the United States in 1979 after marrying her. He was unable to get a United States Permanent Resident Card (green card), so he started writing novels, as this did not require a work permit. He later became a United States citizen. As a child, Cornwell loved the novels of C. S. Forester chronicling the adventures of fictional British naval officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars. He was surprised to"
"other films including ""Oklahoma"", ""Ruggles of Red Gap"" and ""Gaslight"". He gave aspiring actress Marie Windsor her first screen test, and Constance Ockelman her new name, Veronica Lake. As a producer he was nominated for an Academy Award 'Best Picture' Oscar four times, but failed to win. The Hornblows, Frith, and Random House collaborated to produce numerous sequels, ""Birds Do the Strangest Things"" (1965), and so on. Arthur Hornblow Jr. Arthur Hornblow Jr. (March 15, 1893 – July 17, 1976) was an American film producer. Hornblow was the son of Arthur Hornblow Sr. (1865–1942), a writer who edited ""Theatre Magazine"""
"including Bush, who loses a leg, and his ship dismasted, he is then forced to strike his colours and surrender. This novel ends as a cliffhanger. A Ship of the Line A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester. It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of a ship of the line. By internal chronology, ""A Ship of the Line"", which follows ""The Happy Return"", is the seventh book in the series (counting the unfinished ""Hornblower and the Crisis""). However, the book, published in 1938, was the second Hornblower"
"Michael Hornburg Michael Hornburg (born October 31, 1960) is an American writer and literary agent. He has published two novels: ""Bongwater"" (1995) and ""Downers Grove"" (1999), both of which have been adapted into feature films. He has also written for the Portland, Oregon publication ""The Portland Mercury"". Hornburg was born in Chicago, where he lived on the city's north side until age fourteen before relocating to Downers Grove. He attended Downers Grove South High School, where he graduated in 1978. After graduating high school, Hornburg moved to Portland, Oregon and attended Portland State University. His first novel, ""Bongwater"", published in"
"and by guarding the Arctic convoys. Less obviously, Forester draws parallels between the early 19th century and his own time in one or two of the other Hornblower novels. The Commodore The Commodore (published 1945) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester. It was published in the United States under the title ""Commodore Hornblower"". Having achieved fame and financial security, Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower has married Lady Barbara Leighton (née Wellesley) and is preparing to settle down to unaccustomed life as the squire of Smallbridge in Kent. He still yearns to serve at sea and accepts with"
"serialisation in John Bull (magazine) from 1957, ""Hornblower and the Guns of Carabobo"" was the second episode published. (Napoleon died on 5 May 1821 and the Battle of Carabobo took place on 24 June 1821.) This is the only Hornblower novel where events are not presented in chronological order. In the Royal Navy of the early nineteenth century, promotion from captain to admiral was based solely on seniority. The distinguished officer Edward Berry was promoted to captain in 1797 and did not become a rear-admiral until 1821. Hornblower was made a captain in 1805; thus, seniority should not have brought"
"Holly Black Holly Black ""née"" Riggenbach (born November 10, 1971) is an American writer and editor best known for ""The Spiderwick Chronicles"", a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and a trilogy of Young Adult novels officially called the ""Modern Faerie Tales"" trilogy. Her 2013 novel ""Doll Bones"" was named a Newbery Medal honor book. Black was born in West Long Branch, New Jersey in 1971, and during her early years her family lived in a ""decrepit Victorian house."" Black graduated with a B.A. in English from The College of New Jersey in"
"Hornblower"" and before ""Lieutenant Hornblower"". The story opens in the winter of 1799–1800 when ""until three months before, [Hornblower] had been a prisoner in Spanish hands."" He is junior lieutenant in the ship of the line HMS ""Renown"". The ship has just captured a French vessel, and one of the prisoners is recognised as Irish revolutionary Barry McCool. Admiral William Cornwallis gives Hornblower the distasteful task of arranging McCool's execution for desertion from the Royal Navy. Cornwallis insists that McCool is to make no final speech before his execution, so that he cannot try to incite mutiny among the Irish"
"through hard work, honesty and bravery. Both fight in duels before their careers have properly even started and both are taken prisoners early in their careers, but escape in extraordinary fashion. Hornblower is courageous, intelligent, and a skilled seaman, but he is also burdened by his intense reserve, introspection, and self-doubt, and is described as ""unhappy and lonely"". Despite numerous personal feats of extraordinary skill and cunning, he belittles his achievements by numerous rationalisations, remembering only his fears. He consistently ignores or is unaware of the admiration in which he is held by his fellow sailors. He regards himself as"
"entanglements with real world history, so that Hornblower is always off on another mission when a great naval battle occurs during the Napoleonic Wars. Forester's other novels include ""The African Queen"" (1935) and ""The General"" (1936); Peninsular War novels in ""Death to the French"" (published in the United States as ""Rifleman Dodd"") and ""The Gun"" (filmed as ""The Pride and the Passion"" in 1957); and seafaring stories that did not involve Hornblower, such as ""Brown on Resolution"" (1929), ""The Captain from Connecticut"" (1941), ""The Ship"" (1943), and ""Hunting the Bismarck"" (1959), which was used as the basis of the screenplay"
"class) Hornblowers, played by Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, and Frank Lawton. Two underlying themes in the story are class warfare and the urbanization of the countryside. The Hillcrists are upset by the actions of Mr. Hornblower, whom they consider to be ostentatious and crass, in buying up land, evicting tenant farmers, and surrounding the area with factories. The Hillcrists make every effort they can to preserve the last large piece of open land that adjoins their beautiful rural estate. After being tricked out of the land in an auction, the Hillcrists learn a dark secret about Mr. Hornblower's beautiful daughter-in-law"
"the footsteps of C S Forester, creator of the Hornblower series of novels. Forester had died in 1966 and a year later, at the age of 53, O'Brian started work on ""Master and Commander"". The novel was first published in the US by Lippincott in 1969. O'Brian's then UK publisher Macmillan, who had originally agreed to jointly commission the book, rejected it as too full of jargon. It was taken up and published by Collins in 1970. The novel did respectably in Britain (""selling a most surprising number"" according to O'Brian), but was not initially successful in the US. O'Brian"
"Stormbreaker Stormbreaker is a young adult action-adventure book written by British author Anthony Horowitz, and is the first novel in the ""Alex Rider"" series. The book was released in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2000, and in United States release on 21 May 2001, where it became a New York Times Bestseller. Since its release, the book has sold more than nine million copies worldwide, been listed on the BBC's The Big Read, and in 2005 received a California Young Reader Medal. The book's plot revolves around Alex Rider being secretly recruited into MI6 to investigate the Stormbreaker computer"
"he has a daughter, born in 1996. Hornburg lives in Brooklyn, New York. Michael Hornburg Michael Hornburg (born October 31, 1960) is an American writer and literary agent. He has published two novels: ""Bongwater"" (1995) and ""Downers Grove"" (1999), both of which have been adapted into feature films. He has also written for the Portland, Oregon publication ""The Portland Mercury"". Hornburg was born in Chicago, where he lived on the city's north side until age fourteen before relocating to Downers Grove. He attended Downers Grove South High School, where he graduated in 1978. After graduating high school, Hornburg moved to"
"embarrassment which haunts him throughout his career. He is tone-deaf and finds music an incomprehensible irritant (in a scene in ""Hotspur"", he is unable to recognise the British national anthem). A voracious reader, he can discourse on both contemporary and classical literature. His skill at mathematics makes him both an adept navigator and an extremely talented whist player. He uses his ability at whist to supplement his income during a poverty-stricken period of inactivity in the naval service. Hornblower is born in Kent, the son of a doctor. He has no inherited wealth or influential connections who can advance his"
"for Hornblower's fictional adventures. The name ""Horatio"" was inspired by the character in William Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"" and chosen also because of its association with contemporary figures such as Nelson. Forester's original inspiration was an old copy of the ""Naval Chronicle"", which described the effective dates of the Treaty of Ghent. It was possible for two countries to still be at war in one part of the world after a peace was obtained months before in another because of the time required to communicate around the world. The burdens that this placed on captains far from home led him to a"
"A Ship of the Line A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester. It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of a ship of the line. By internal chronology, ""A Ship of the Line"", which follows ""The Happy Return"", is the seventh book in the series (counting the unfinished ""Hornblower and the Crisis""). However, the book, published in 1938, was the second Hornblower novel completed by Forester. It is one of three ""Hornblower"" novels adapted into the 1951 British-American film ""Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N."". Hornblower has recently returned to"