Delphi Complete Hornblower Books and Collected Works of C. S. Forester (Illustrated)

The British historical novelist C. S. Forester is best known as the creator of Horatio Hornblower, whose rise from midshipman to admiral and peer during the Napoleonic Wars is told in a series of twelve novels, beginning with ‘The Happy Return’. Two of the Hornblower novels, ‘A Ship of the Line’ and ‘Flying Colours’, were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. This comprehensive eBook presents Forester’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Forester’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All the Hornblower novels and short stories, with individual contents tables * Special ‘Hornblower Series in Narrative Order’ contents table, allowing you to navigate the series easily * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * A selection of Forester’s other novels * Collected WWII short stories * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: Hornblower Series in Narrative Order Hornblower Novels The Happy Return A Ship of the Line Flying Colours The Commodore Lord Hornblower Mr. Midshipman Hornblower Lieutenant Hornblower Hornblower and the Atropos Hornblower in the West Indies Hornblower and the Hotspur Hornblower and the Crisis Hornblower Short Stories The Hand of Destiny Hornblower and the Widow McCool Hornblower’s Charitable Offering Hornblower and His Majesty The Last Encounter Other Novels Payment Deferred Brown on Resolution The Peacemaker The African Queen The General The Ship The Good Shepherd Short Stories Collected Short Stories Non-Fiction Hunting the Bismarck Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks