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British novelist (1899–1966)

"Cecil Forester" redirects here. For other uses, see [Cecil Forester (disambiguation)](/source/Cecil_Forester_(disambiguation)).

C. S. Forester Forester in 1939 Born Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-08-27)27 August 1899 Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt Died 2 April 1966(1966-04-02) (aged 66) Fullerton, California, U.S. Occupation Novelist Nationality British Education Alleyn's School, Dulwich College Genre Adventure, drama, sea stories Spouse Kathleen Belcher ​ ​ (m. 1926; div. 1945)​ Dorothy Foster ​ (m. 1947)​ Children John (1929-2020); George

**Cecil Louis Troughton Smith** (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), best known by his pen name **C.S. Forester**, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book [Horatio Hornblower](/source/Horatio_Hornblower) series depicting a [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) officer during the [Napoleonic Wars](/source/Napoleonic_Wars).

The Hornblower novels *[A Ship of the Line](/source/A_Ship_of_the_Line)* and *[Flying Colours](/source/Flying_Colours_(novel))* were jointly awarded the 1938 [James Tait Black Memorial Prize](/source/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize) for fiction. Other works include *[The African Queen](/source/The_African_Queen_(novel))* and *[The Good Shepherd](/source/The_Good_Shepherd_(novel))*, both of which were later adapted as movies.

During [World War II](/source/World_War_II), he moved to the [United States](/source/United_States) where he worked for the [British Ministry of Information](/source/Ministry_of_Information_(United_Kingdom)), writing propaganda for the [Allied cause](/source/Allies_of_World_War_II). He eventually settled in [Fullerton, California](/source/Fullerton%2C_California), where he died in 1966 of complications arising from a stroke.

## Early years

[English heritage](/source/English_heritage) [blue plaque](/source/Blue_plaque) in [East Dulwich](/source/East_Dulwich), south London

Forester was born in [Cairo](/source/Cairo) on 27 August 1899, fifth and youngest child of George Foster Smith and his wife Sarah Troughton. His father was an English teacher in a local school set up to give upper-class Egyptian boys an English education. His parents separated when he was young, and his mother took him to London, where he was educated at [Alleyn's School](/source/Alleyn's_School) and [Dulwich College](/source/Dulwich_College). He began to study medicine at [Guy's Hospital](/source/Guy's_Hospital), but left without completing his degree. He was somewhat athletic, wore glasses, and had a slender physique. He failed his Army physical and was told that there was no chance that he would be accepted. He began writing seriously, using his pen name, in around 1921.[1][2][3]

## Second World War

During the [Second World War](/source/World_War_II), Forester moved to [Berkeley, California](/source/Berkeley%2C_California), where he worked for the [British Ministry of Information](/source/Ministry_of_Information_(United_Kingdom)) and wrote propaganda to encourage the U.S. to join the [Allies](/source/Allies_of_World_War_II).[1]

In 1942, he met the young British diplomat [Roald Dahl](/source/Roald_Dahl) in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.), and encouraged him to write about his experiences in the [Royal Air Force](/source/Royal_Air_Force).[4] According to Dahl's autobiography, *Lucky Break*, Forester asked him about his experiences as a fighter pilot, and this prompted Dahl to write his first story, "A Piece of Cake".[4]

## Literary career

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Forester's 1934 science fiction novel *The Peacemaker* was reprinted in *[Famous Fantastic Mysteries](/source/Famous_Fantastic_Mysteries)* in 1948.

Forester wrote many novels, but he is best known for the 12-book [Horatio Hornblower](/source/Horatio_Hornblower) series about an officer in the Royal Navy during the [Napoleonic Wars](/source/Napoleonic_Wars).[5] He began the series with Hornblower a captain in the first novel, *[The Happy Return](/source/The_Happy_Return)*, which was published in 1937, but demand for more stories led him to fill in Hornblower's life story, and he wrote novels detailing his rise from the rank of midshipman. The last completed novel was published in 1962. Hornblower's fictional adventures were based on real events, but Forester wrote the body of the works carefully to avoid 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](/source/The_African_Queen_(novel))* (1935) and *[The General](/source/The_General_(C._S._Forester_novel))* (1936); two novels about the [Peninsular War](/source/Peninsular_War), *[Death to the French](/source/Death_to_the_French)* in 1932 later on (published in the United States as *Rifleman Dodd*) and *[The Gun](/source/The_Gun_(novel))* (filmed as *[The Pride and the Passion](/source/The_Pride_and_the_Passion)* in 1957); and seafaring stories that do not involve Hornblower, such as *[Brown on Resolution](/source/Brown_on_Resolution)* (1929), *[The Captain from Connecticut](/source/The_Captain_from_Connecticut)* (1941), *[The Ship](/source/The_Ship_(novel))* (1943), and *[Hunting the Bismarck](/source/The_Last_Nine_Days_of_the_Bismarck)* (1959), which was used as the basis of the screenplay for the film *[Sink the Bismarck!](/source/Sink_the_Bismarck!)* (1960). Several of his novels have been filmed, including *[The African Queen](/source/The_African_Queen_(film))* (1951), directed by [John Huston](/source/John_Huston). Forester is also credited as story writer on several films not based on his published novels, including *[Commandos Strike at Dawn](/source/Commandos_Strike_at_Dawn)* (1942).

Forester also wrote several volumes of short stories set during the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War). Those in *The Nightmare* (1954) were based on events in [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany), ending at the [Nuremberg trials](/source/Nuremberg_trials). The linked stories in *The Man in the Yellow Raft* (1969) follow the career of the destroyer USS *Boon*, while many of the stories in *Gold from Crete* (1971) follow the destroyer HMS *Apache*. The last of the stories in *Gold from Crete* is *If Hitler Had Invaded England*, which offers an imagined sequence of events starting with [Hitler](/source/Adolf_Hitler)'s attempt to implement [Operation Sea Lion](/source/Operation_Sea_Lion) and culminating in the early military defeat of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941.

His non-fiction works about seafaring include *The Age of Fighting Sail* (1956), an account of the sea battles between Great Britain and the United States in the [War of 1812](/source/War_of_1812).

Forester also published the crime novels *[Payment Deferred](/source/Payment_Deferred)* (1926) and *Plain Murder* (1930), as well as two children's books. *Poo-Poo and the Dragons* (1942) was created as a series of stories told to his son George to encourage him to finish his meals. George had mild food allergies and needed encouragement to eat.[6] *The Barbary Pirates* (1953) is a children's history of early 19th-century pirates.

Forester appeared as a contestant on the television quiz programme *[You Bet Your Life](/source/You_Bet_Your_Life)*, hosted by [Groucho Marx](/source/Groucho_Marx), in an episode broadcast on 1 November 1956.[7]

A previously unknown novel of Forester's, *The Pursued*, was discovered in 2003 and published by [Penguin Classics](/source/Penguin_Classics) on 3 November 2011.[8][9]

## Personal life

Forester married Kathleen Belcher in 1926. They had two sons, John, born in 1929, and George, born in 1933. Forrester moved to Berkeley, California, US in 1940 to further his career in [Hollywood](/source/Cinema_of_the_United_States), commuting back and forth from Los Angeles. He had previously commuted back and forth from London since the production of *[Payment Deferred](/source/Payment_Deferred_(film))* in 1932, but felt exhausted from the culture in LA and felt he needed even the little distance Berkeley provided. He was stricken with [arteriosclerosis](/source/Arteriosclerosis) while at sea on a research trip aboard the [USS *Tennessee* (BB-43)](/source/USS_Tennessee_(BB-43)) in 1943 which would leave him crippled. Belcher and Forester divorced in 1945.[1][10][11]

Kathleen Belcher's great‑uncle was [Edward Belcher](/source/Edward_Belcher), who achieved renown as a hydrographer and explorer. After his retirement, Belcher devoted much of his time to writing. After penning biographical material, he turned his hand to naval fiction, inventing a character called *Horatio Howard Brenton*, and attributing great feats and adventures to him. It is possible that Forester found some inspiration in these stories for his own *Horatio Hornblower*.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

In 1947 Forester married another childhood friend, Dorothy Foster, as Forester's fortunes prospered from the successful releases of *[The African Queen](/source/The_African_Queen_(film))* and *[Captain Horatio Hornblower](/source/Captain_Horatio_Hornblower)*, the later which then Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret visited the set of, and Princess Margaret attended the London premiere.[12] [Queen Elizabeth](/source/Elizabeth_II) offered to honor Forester with a [Commander of the British Empire](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire) in her 1953 [Coronation Honours](/source/Crown_Honours_Lists#Coronation_Honours), however he turned it down in the hope of a knighthood.[13][14]

Forester moved into his son [John Forester](/source/John_Forester_(cyclist))'s [Fullerton, California](/source/Fullerton%2C_California) home in 1959, suffered a stroke in 1964 which affected his ability to continue writing, and died on 2 April 1966.[15]

John Forester wrote a two-volume biography of his father, including many elements of Forester's life which became clear to his son only after his father's death.[10]

## Bibliography

### Horatio Hornblower

1. 1950 *[Mr Midshipman Hornblower](/source/Mr._Midshipman_Hornblower)*. Michael Joseph.

1. 1941 "The Hand of Destiny". *[Collier's](/source/Collier's)*

1. 1950 "[Hornblower and the Widow McCool](/source/Hornblower_and_the_Widow_McCool)" ("Hornblower's Temptation" ""Hornblower and the Big Decision"). *[The Saturday Evening Post](/source/The_Saturday_Evening_Post)*

1. 1952 *[Lieutenant Hornblower](/source/Lieutenant_Hornblower)*. Michael Joseph.

1. 1962 *[Hornblower and the Hotspur](/source/Hornblower_and_the_Hotspur)*. Michael Joseph.

1. 1967 *[Hornblower and the Crisis](/source/Hornblower_and_the_Crisis), an unfinished novel*. Michael Joseph. Published in the US as *Hornblower During the Crisis* (posthumous)

1. 1953 *[Hornblower and the Atropos](/source/Hornblower_and_the_Atropos)*. Michael Joseph.

1. 1937 *[The Happy Return](/source/The_Happy_Return)*. Michael Joseph. Published in the US as *Beat to Quarters*

1. 1938 *[A Ship of the Line](/source/A_Ship_of_the_Line)*. Michael Joseph.

1. 1941 *"Hornblower's Charitable Offering"*. [*Argosy*](/source/Argosy_(magazine))

1. 1938 *[Flying Colours](/source/Flying_Colours_(novel))*. Michael Joseph.

1. 1941 "Hornblower and His Majesty". *[Collier's](/source/Collier's)*

1. 1945 *[The Commodore](/source/The_Commodore_(Forester_novel))*. Michael Joseph. Published in the US as *Commodore Hornblower*

1. 1946 *[Lord Hornblower](/source/Lord_Hornblower)*. Michael Joseph.

1. 1958 *[Hornblower in the West Indies](/source/Hornblower_in_the_West_Indies)*. Michael Joseph. Published in the US as *Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies*

1. 1967 "[The Last Encounter](/source/The_Last_Encounter)". Sunday Mirror, 8 May 1966 (posthumous).

1. 1964 *The Hornblower Companion*. Michael Joseph. (Supplementary book comprising another short story, "The Point and the Edge" only as an outline, "The Hornblower Atlas" and "Some Personal Notes")

#### Omnibus

1. 1964 *The Young Hornblower*. (a compilation of full-length books 1, 2 & 3; numbers 1,4,5 above). Michael Joseph.

1. 1965 *Captain Hornblower* (a compilation of full-length books 5, 6 & 7; numbers 7,8,9 above). Michael Joseph.

1. 1968 *Admiral Hornblower* (a compilation of full-length books 8, 9, 10 & 11; numbers 11,13,14,15 above). Michael Joseph.

1. 2011 *Hornblower Addendum – Five Short Stories* (originally published in magazines)

### Other novels

- 1924 *A Pawn among Kings*. Methuen.

- 1924 *The Paid Piper*. [Methuen](/source/Methuen_Publishing).

- 1926 *[Payment Deferred](/source/Payment_Deferred)*. Methuen.

- 1927 *Love Lies Dreaming*. [John Lane](/source/John_Lane_(publisher)).

- 1927 *The Wonderful Week*. John Lane.

- 1928 *The Daughter of the Hawk*. John Lane.

- 1929 *[Brown on Resolution](/source/Brown_on_Resolution)*. John Lane.

- 1930 *Plain Murder*. John Lane.

- 1931 *Two-and-Twenty*. John Lane.

- 1932 *[Death to the French](/source/Death_to_the_French)*. John Lane. Published in the U.S. as *Rifleman Dodd*. [Little Brown](/source/Little_Brown).

- 1933 *[The Gun](/source/The_Gun_(novel))*. John Lane.

- 1934 *The Peacemaker*. [Heinemann](/source/Heinemann_(publisher)).

- 1935 *[The African Queen](/source/The_African_Queen_(novel))*. Heinemann.

- 1935 *The Pursued* (a lost novel rediscovered in 1999 and published by [Penguin Classics](/source/Penguin_Classics) in 2011)[16]

- 1936 *[The General](/source/The_General_(C._S._Forester_novel))*. [Michael Joseph](/source/Michael_Joseph_(publisher)). First published as a serial in the *News Chronicle* 14–18 January 1935

- 1940 *The Earthly Paradise*. Michael Joseph. Published in the U.S. as *To the Indies*.

- 1941 *[The Captain from Connecticut](/source/The_Captain_from_Connecticut)*. Michael Joseph.

- 1942 *Poo-Poo and the Dragons*. Michael Joseph.

- 1943 *[The Ship](/source/The_Ship_(novel))*. Michael Joseph.

- 1948 *The Sky and the Forest*. Michael Joseph.

- 1951 *Randall and the River of Time*. Michael Joseph.

- 1955 *[The Good Shepherd](/source/The_Good_Shepherd_(novel))*. Michael Joseph.

#### Short stories

- "The Wandering Gentile", *Liverpool Echo*, 1955

### Posthumous

- 1967 *Long before Forty* (autobiographical). Michael Joseph.

- 1971 *Gold from Crete* (short stories). Michael Joseph.

- 2011 *The Pursued* (novel). Penguin.

### Collections

- 1944 *The Bedchamber Mystery*; to which is added the story of *The Eleven Deckchairs* and *Modernity and Maternity*. S. J. Reginald Saunders. Published in the US as *Three Matronly Mysteries*. eNet Press

- 1954 *The Nightmare*. Michael Joseph

- 1969 *The Man in the Yellow Raft*. Michael Joseph (posthumous)

### Plays in three acts; John Lane

- 1931 *U 97*

- 1933 *Nurse Cavell*. (with [C. E. Bechhofer Roberts](/source/C._E._Bechhofer_Roberts))

### Non-fiction

- 1922 *Victor Emmanuel II*. Methuen (?)

- 1927 *Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy*. Methuen.

- 1924 *Napoleon and his Court*. Methuen.

- 1925 *Josephine, Napoleon's Empress*. Methuen.

- 1928 *Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre*. Methuen.

- 1929 *Lord Nelson*. John Lane.

- 1929 *The Voyage of the Annie Marble*. John Lane.

- 1930 *The Annie Marble in Germany*. John Lane.

- 1936 *Marionettes at Home*. Michael Joseph Ltd.

- 1953 *The Adventures of John Wetherell*. [Doubleday & Company](/source/Doubleday_%26_Company), Inc.

- 1953 *The Barbary Pirates*. Landmark Books, [Random House](/source/Random_House). Published in the UK in 1956 by Macdonald & Co.

- 1957 *The Naval War of 1812*. Michael Joseph. Published in the US as *The Age of Fighting Sail*

- 1959 *Hunting the Bismarck*. Michael Joseph. Published in the US as *The Last Nine Days of the Bismark* and *Sink the Bismarck*

#### Non-fiction short pieces

- "Calmness under Air Raids in Franco Territory". *Western Mail*, 28 April 1937

- "Who Is Financing Franco?". *Aberdeen Press & Journal*, 5 May 1937

- "Sabotage". [Sunday Graphic](/source/Sunday_Graphic), 11 September 1938

- "Saga of the Submarines". *Falkirk Herald*, 1 August 1945

- "Hollywood Coincidence". *Leicester Chronicle*, 3 September 1955

## Film adaptations

In addition to providing the source material for numerous adaptations (not all of which are listed below), Forester was also credited as "adapted for the screen by" for *[Captain Horatio Hornblower](/source/Captain_Horatio_Hornblower)*.

- *[Payment Deferred](/source/Payment_Deferred_(film))* (1932), based on a 1931 play which was in turn based on Forester's novel of the same name

- *[Brown on Resolution](/source/Brown_on_Resolution_(film))* (1935), based on the novel of the same name

- *[Eagle Squadron](/source/Eagle_Squadron_(film))* (1942), story

- *[Commandos Strike at Dawn](/source/Commandos_Strike_at_Dawn)* (1942), short story "The Commandos"

- *[Forever and a Day](/source/Forever_and_a_Day_(1943_film))* (1943), story

- *[Captain Horatio Hornblower](/source/Captain_Horatio_Hornblower)* (1951), based on the novels *[The Happy Return](/source/The_Happy_Return)*, *[A Ship of the Line](/source/A_Ship_of_the_Line)* and *[Flying Colours](/source/Flying_Colours_(novel))*

- *[The African Queen](/source/The_African_Queen_(film))* (1951), the novel of the same name

- *[Sailor of the King](/source/Sailor_of_the_King)* (1953), the novel *Brown on Resolution*

- *[The Pride and the Passion](/source/The_Pride_and_the_Passion)* (1957), the novel *The Gun*

- *[Sink the Bismarck!](/source/Sink_the_Bismarck!)* (1960), the novel *The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck*

- *[Hornblower](/source/Hornblower_(TV_series))* (1998–2003 series of made-for-television movies), based on the novels *Mr. Midshipman Hornblower*, *Lieutenant Hornblower* and *Hornblower and the Hotspur*

- *[Greyhound](/source/Greyhound_(film))* (2020), the novel *The Good Shepherd*

## See also

- [Honor Harrington](/source/Honor_Harrington) – a fictional space captain and admiral in the [Honorverse](/source/Honorverse) novels by [David Weber](/source/David_Weber), inspired by Horatio Hornblower (see dedication in *[On Basilisk Station](/source/On_Basilisk_Station)*)

- [Patrick O'Brian](/source/Patrick_O'Brian) – author of the [Aubrey–Maturin series](/source/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series)

- [Dudley Pope](/source/Dudley_Pope) – author of the [Ramage](/source/Lord_Ramage) series

- [Richard Woodman](/source/Richard_Woodman) – author of the Nathaniel Drinkwater series

- [Douglas Reeman](/source/Douglas_Reeman) (writing as Alexander Kent) – [The Bolitho novels](/source/The_Bolitho_novels)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-CSForester1e_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-CSForester1e_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-CSForester1e_1-2) Forester, John (2000). *Novelist & Storyteller: The Life of C. S. Forester* (2 volumes) (first ed.). Lemon Grove, CA: John Forester. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-940558-04-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-940558-04-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Sternlicht, Sanford (1999). [*C.S. Forester and the Hornblower saga*](https://books.google.com/books?id=0wfq6JUAkcIC) (Rev. ed.). Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780815606215](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780815606215). Retrieved 4 November 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Book: Flying colours"](https://esploro.libs.uga.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma993828323902959&context=L&vid=01GALI_UGA:UGA&lang=en&search_scope=MyInstitution&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=LibraryCatalog&query=title,exact,Flying%20colours.). *University of Georgia*. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Dahl_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Dahl_4-1) Donald Sturrock, *Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl*, Harper Collins 2010, p. 168.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["The Hornblower Companion"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200702114410/https://www.historicnavalfiction.com/index.php/general-hnf-info/fleet-actions/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=247:the-hornblower-companion&catid=110&Itemid=205). *Historic Naval Fiction*. Archived from [the original](https://www.historicnavalfiction.com/index.php/general-hnf-info/fleet-actions/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=247:the-hornblower-companion&catid=110&Itemid=205) on 2 July 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** *Poo-Poo and the Dragons*: Preface

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [*You Bet Your Life #56-06 C. S. Forrester, author of Horatio Hornblower (*Name*, 1 November 1956)*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neBitTTGr78&list=PLHaioNpr_GDbvsTj_taM-jO6C1658N1PC&index=41). 26 July 2017 – via YouTube.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Lost CS Forester book The Pursued to be published"](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-15327043). BBC News. 16 October 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** C. S. Forester (2011). *The Pursued*. Penguin. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780141198071](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780141198071).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-CSForester2e_10-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-CSForester2e_10-1) Forester, John (2013). [*Novelist & Storyteller: The Life of C. S. Forester*](https://books.google.com/books?id=L9hyAgAAQBAJ) (second ed.). Lake Oswego, OR: eNet Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-61886-004-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61886-004-0). Retrieved 23 July 2014.. [Publisher's excerpt](http://www.enetpress.com/johnforester/jf_book_STLoCSF_excerpt.html)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** van Gelder, Robert (23 February 1941). ["Author of "Captain Horatio Hornblower"; A Talk With C.S. Forester"](https://www.nytimes.com/1941/02/23/archives/author-of-captain-horatio-hornblower-a-talk-with-cs-forester-who.html). *New York Times*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["Princess Margaret at World Premier"](https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/84504/). *British Pathé*. 19 April 1951. Retrieved 29 September 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** O'Sullivan, Kyle (2 June 2022). ["Famous people who have rejected honours from the Queen"](https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/uk-world-news/famous-people-who-rejected-honours-7159910). *Cornwall Live*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** ["An Archive of Personal Papers Belonging to Cecil Troughton Smith"](https://www.jonkers.co.uk/rare-book/3186/an-archive-of-personal-papers-belonging-to-cecil-troughton-smith-c-s-forester/c-s-forester). *Jonkers Rare Books*. Retrieved 29 September 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-15)** ["C. S. Forester Dies; Hornblower Author; C.S. Forester, Author of Hornblomer Novels, Dies"](https://www.nytimes.com/1966/04/03/archives/c-s-forester-dies-hornblower-author-cs-forester-author-of.html). *New York Times*. 3 April 1966.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-16)** "A Note on the Text" by Lawrence Brewer, *The Pursued* p. 220

## Further reading

- Sternlicht, Sanford V., *C.S. Forester and the Hornblower saga* (Syracuse University Press, 1999)

- Van der Kiste, John, *C.S. Forester's Crime Noir: A view of the murder stories* (KDP, 2018)

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v t e Works by C. S. Forester Hornblower series The Happy Return (1937) A Ship of the Line (1938) Flying Colours (1938) The Commodore (1945) Lord Hornblower (1946) Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950) Lieutenant Hornblower (1952) Hornblower and the Atropos (1953) Hornblower in the West Indies (1958) Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962) Hornblower and the Crisis (1967) The Last Encounter (1967) Hornblower and the Widow McCool (1967) Other novels A Pawn Among Kings (1924) Payment Deferred (1926) Love Lies Dreaming (1927) The Wonderful Week (1927) The Shadow of the Hawk (1928) Brown on Resolution (1929) Plain Murder (1930) Death to the French (1932) The Gun (1933) The Peacemaker (1934) The African Queen (1935) The General (1936) To the Indies (1940) The Earthly Paradise (1940) The Captain from Connecticut (1941) The Ship (1943) The Bedchamber Mystery (1944) The Sky and the Forest (1948) Randall and the River of Time (1950) The Good Shepherd (1955) The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck (1959)

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