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Mr Midshipman Hornblower
A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea
Synopsis
Join young Horatio Hornblower in the thrilling naval adventure from the author of The Good Shepherd, now a major-motion picture starring Tom Hanks
'A joyous creation, a perfection in words. Young Hornblower is, simply, one of the most complete creations of character in fiction' Conn Iggulden, The Independent
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1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command . . .
As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy.
Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves.
After a character-forming duel, several deadly chases and some dramatic captures and escapes, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea.
This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower.
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'Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative' San Francisco Chronicle
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What Reviewers Are Saying
I recommend Forester to every literate I know -- Ernest Hemingway I find Hornblower admirable, vastly entertaining -- Sir Winston Churchill One of the best. Everyone interested in war, or in human nature, should read * Times Literary Supplement * Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative * San Francisco Chronicle * A master of the genre * New York Times *