Captain Horatio Hornblower
SEE OUR PHOTOS! This 504-page hardcover was published by Little, Brown in 1939 (35th printing). This book is in good condition. Pages appear clean and unmarked There is no dustcover. The tan hardcover looks good, with minor shelf wear, and slightly bumped corners. The binding is solid. Overall, a good conditioned volume. Please see our 3 photos of this book (on a white sheet).
Literature & Fiction
RELEASED1939
PUBLISHERLittle Brown
LANGUAGEEN
Cecil Scott Forester, an Englishman, was born in Cairo in 1899, the son of a British army officer. He was educated in London, and for a time he studied medicine. After a World War I stint in the infantry, however, he decided to be a poet. This was a shortlived pursuit and he soon turned to biography and fiction. He then wrote many best-selling novels—African Queen and The General among them—before he wrote the first of his Hornblower stories in 1937. That first book was Beat to Quarters, chronologically the fifth volume in tracing the career of Hornblower. In 1940 Forester moved to Berkeley, California, where he lived for many years between his World War II and postwar travels. In April of 1966, while writing Hornblower and the Crisis, C. S. Forester died. Today, the popularity of his writing still continues to grow, and the names of both Forester and Hornblower have become synonymous with the greatest names in naval literature.
Captain Horatio Hornblower
SEE OUR PHOTOS! This 504-page hardcover was published by Little, Brown in 1939 (35th printing). This book is in good condition. Pages appear clean and unmarked There is no dustcover. The tan hardcover looks good, with minor shelf wear, and slightly bumped corners. The binding is solid. Overall, a good conditioned volume. Please see our 3 photos of this book (on a white sheet).
Literature & Fiction
RELEASED1939
PUBLISHERLittle Brown
LANGUAGEEN
Cecil Scott Forester, an Englishman, was born in Cairo in 1899, the son of a British army officer. He was educated in London, and for a time he studied medicine. After a World War I stint in the infantry, however, he decided to be a poet. This was a shortlived pursuit and he soon turned to biography and fiction. He then wrote many best-selling novels—African Queen and The General among them—before he wrote the first of his Hornblower stories in 1937. That first book was Beat to Quarters, chronologically the fifth volume in tracing the career of Hornblower. In 1940 Forester moved to Berkeley, California, where he lived for many years between his World War II and postwar travels. In April of 1966, while writing Hornblower and the Crisis, C. S. Forester died. Today, the popularity of his writing still continues to grow, and the names of both Forester and Hornblower have become synonymous with the greatest names in naval literature.
