C. S. Forester Libri

Inghilterra e Francia sono in pace, ma tutti sanno che lo stallo non può durare e che Bonaparte sta preparando uno sbarco sulla costa inglese. Posta di fronte a questo pericolo micidiale, l'Inghilterra si affretta al riarmo della propria flotta. A Hornblower viene affidato un piccolo tre alberi, la Hotspur, e l'incarico di sorvegliare le forze marittime francesi radunate nel golfo di Brest, in attesa che arrivi la squadra navale inglese a bloccare la Manica. Prima da solo, e poi con tutta la flotta dell'ammiraglio Cornwallis alle spalle, Hornblower sarà sempre in prima linea, affrontando il nemico e ottenendo il rispetto del suo equipaggio, fino a guadagnarsi la nomina a capitano di vascello. Ma i francesi non saranno gli unici nemici: le durissime condizioni della vita di bordo e la rigidità della disciplina militare, che lo obbligherà a decisioni ingrate; le ansie per la moglie e per il figlio in arrivo e le incomprensioni di qualche superiore blasonato e protetto a corte saranno per lui un carico forse ancora più pesante dei pericoli della battaglia. In una storia fatta di cieli limpidi, albe ghiacciate e battaglie improvvise e violente, Il ritorno di Hornblower racconta la crescita personale di un eroe.

The young Hornblower - A truly formidable force in His Majesty's serviceThe seventeen-year-old Hornblower became notorious as soon as he stepped on board ship - as the midshipman who was seasick in Spithead. But he was soon to gain his sea legs.Amid battle, action and adventure he proves himself time and time again - courageous in danger, resourceful in moments of difficulty and decisive in times of trouble. The reader stands right beside him as he prepares to fight his first duel, feels the heat as he battles to control a blazing ship and shares his horror as he experiences for the first time the panic of the Plague.C.S. Forester's classic Hornblower books are now lavishly adapted for the screen in a major new ITV series.This omnibus edition contains: Mr Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower and Hornblower and the 'Hotspur'.

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..

June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua, a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad. A daunting enough set of orders, even if the married captain were not distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley.

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea A humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape and make a triumphant return to England . . . Forced to surrender his ship, HMS Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower is held prisoner in a French fortress. Prospects turn bleaker when he learns that he and Lt. Bush are to be tried and executed in Paris as part of Napoleon's attempts to rally the war-weary Empire. Even if Hornblower can escape this fate and make it safe to England, he still faces court-martial for surrendering his ship. With little hope for the future and little left to lose, Hornblower throws caution to the wind once more. This is the seventh of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower. 'A joyous creation, perfection in words' Conn Iggulden

The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in independent command on the high seas. And while blood and violence flow thick and fast aboard a beleaguered HMS Renown, the aftermath of war promises intrigue of an entirely different order: Maria, a young senorita, who might just soften the steely resolve of a young lieutenant. This is the second of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower."