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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

by C.S. Forester
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The year is 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Horatio Hornblower, a seventeen-year-old boy unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, is ordered to board a French merchant ship and take command of crew and cargo for the glory of England. Though not an unqualified success, this first naval adventure teaches the young midshipman enough to launch him on a series of increasingly glorious exploits. This novel--in which young Horatio gets his sea legs, proves his mettle, and shows the makings of the legend he will become--is the first of the eleven swashbuckling Hornblower tales that are today regarded as classic adventure stories of the sea.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780316289122
ISBN10 0316289124
Series/Work OL1937789W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Back Bay Books
Pages 310
Language EN-US
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At April 18, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Children's fiction Fiction Fiction, action & adventure Fiction, historical Fiction, historical, general Fiction in English Fiction, sea stories Great britain, fiction Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character) Hornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fiction Large type books Literature Midshipmen Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Naval History Peninsular war, 1807-1814, fiction Sea stories

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