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C. S. Forester
The film of this famous love and adventure story which starred Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart became one of the most popular films ever made.
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The Good Shepherd is a 1955 nautical and war novel by C. S. Forester. First published in the U.S., it illustrates the difficulties of the Battle of the Atlantic: the…
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Payment Deferred is a crime novel by C.S. Forester. It tells about William Marble, a bank clerk living in south London with a wife, Annie, and two teenage children. William…
The celebrated author of the Hornblower series presents the biography of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, the victor of the naval battle of Trafalgar.
Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family’s bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of cyanide, and a shovel offer him…
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Originally published: London: John Lane, 1933.
The history of Italy – from the Congress of Vienna to the rise of Mussolini – is treated in detail, with the clarity and fine writing one came to expect…
A brilliant and entertaining description of the apogee of the age of absolute monarchy ruled by divine right, the rise of mercantilism, centralized bureaucracy and france’s military might during the…
A well-researched, comprehensive and delightfully written early work of the celebrated author of the Hornblower series and other great novels.
This novel details a trans-Atlantic convoy cruise during World War II. Described with the accuracy of nonfiction are the complex manoeuvres with which the convoy commander shepherds his close-packed flock…
Separated from his regiment during a retreat, Rifleman Matthew Dodd of Wellington’s army engaged the French single-handedly and eventually causes their retreat.
Reprint of the ed. published by Sun Dial Press in 1944.
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The biography "Napoleon and His Court" by C.S. Forester provides a thorough account of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte and the individuals who made up his court when he was…
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
First published in the United States of America by Little, Brown in 1955.
Forester’s masterpiece of suspense. A middle-aged bank clerk with a mountain of debt and an extravagant wife commits a murder in secret. Later, a profitable investment brings him a fortune…
Three advertising men decide to kill a colleague to avoid dismissal and the grim prospect of joblessness. Their leader acquires a taste for crime, but eventually gets his comeuppance.
First published in the United States of America by Little, Brown in 1955 under the title Good Shepherd.
Soon to be the major motion picture Greyhound, a WWII naval thriller of high and glittering excitement (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series.
With a fortune of gold and silver aboard, HMS Atropos is trapped between a 56-gun ship of the line, a hostile army, and the cross-fire of Turkish batteries in the…
A classic novel about the Peninsular War from the celebrated author of the HORNBLOWER series
In 1941, Hitler's deadly Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic. Its mission: to cut the lifeline of British shipping and win the war with one mighty…
For all his young life Albert Brown had known that he was to join the Navy, and the beginning of the First World War finds him a Leading Seaman. Alone…
Horatio Hornblower, only seventeen years old, gets his sea legs in this absolutely compelling (San Francisco Chronicle) first installment of C. S. Forester’s classic naval adventure series.The year is…
The second of C.S.Forester’s classic seafaring adventure bestsellers featuring the intrepid hero of Nelson’s navy, Horatio Hornblower.
Cut off from his regiment by enemy forces pursuing his British comrades in retreat, Rifleman Matthew Dodd commits himself to fighting his way back to friendly lines. Dodd's simple, unyielding…
C.S. Forester, creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series, takes readers on an exciting adventure to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa. That’s where, more than 200 years ago…
Called as gripping and realistic a sea tale as you are likely to run across by the New York Times, C. S. Forester’s Beat to Quarters finds Hornblower faced with…
Hornblower leads his first ship of the line into enemy waters in this installment of C. S. Forester’s beloved adventure series, called exciting, realistic, packed with grand naval action by…
It is 1812, and Hornblower has been given sole responsibility for protecting the Baltic trade and stopping the spread of Napoleon’s empire into Sweden and Russia. His instructions are to…
The seventh volume in the classic naval adventure series finds Captain Hornblower a prisoner in the French fortress of Rosas, having to surrender his ship, but only after seriously disabling…
The tenth novel in the Hornblower series by the author of The African Queen .
The ninth novel in the Hornblower series by the author of The African Queen .
The 11th and final volume in C.S.Forester’s Hornblower series. Also included are two stories Hornblower’s Temptation and The Last Encounter - depicting Hornblower in youth and old age respectively.
