Hornblower is back. The British Navy's go-to guy returns to television in two new A&E films this Sunday and next, making loyalty, honor and principle more fashionable than Tony Soprano for at least a ...
The action of the Hornblower saga, a series of eleven novels and several short stories by C. S. Forester, begins in 1794. At that point in his life, Horatio Hornblower is a penniless, orphaned ...
Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes ...
COMMODORE HORNBLOWER — C. S. Forester — Little, Brown ($2.50). “Get out my best uniform and sword! Have the horses put to in my chariot!” bellowed Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower when the Admiralty ...