Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Horatio Hornblower Series #1) FROM THE PUBLISHER
Horatio Hornblower was born in C.S. Forester's fertile imagination and became arguably more famous, certainly more personal, than Nelson, Cook and Drake combined. He fought in a dozen major campaigns during the Napoleonic wars, and it was in these pages that we first got a glimmer of just how much Bonaparte was hated, and why.
Forester's genius was not tidy, and so this story, which sets Hornblower on course at age 17, is Forester's sixth book about him, though it should have been the first. Lieutenant Hornblower, which follows it, carries the intrepid young man another step forward in his career.
FROM THE CRITICS
New Yorker
Exciting, realistic, packed with grand naval action.
Chicago Tribune
No other contemporary writer can equal Forester at this kind of storytelling.
Washington Post
Readers...will keep their eyes glued to the page.
Saturday Review
Delightful....Forester is, like Dickens, a professional....Everlastingly entertaining.
Times Literary Suppleme
C. S. Forester's knowledge of the technical side of life during the Napoleonic Wars is a continual delight.Read all 8 "From The Critics" >
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
I recommend Forester to every literate I know. — Ernest Hemingway
Vastly entertaining. — Winston Churchill
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