C. S. Forester - Collected Works of C. S. Forester

The Collected Works of

C. S. FORESTER

(1899-1966)

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The Collected Works of

C. S. FORESTER

with introductions by Gill Rossini
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By Delphi Classics, 2018

Collected Works of C. S. Forester

First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by Delphi Classics.

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Narrative date: Jan 1794Feb 1799
Published: May 22, 1950
Novel

Narrative date: 1796
Published: Apr 1941
Short story

Narrative date: Nov 1799Jul 1800
Published: Apr 1951
Short story

Narrative date: Aug 1800Mar 1803
Published: Feb 11, 1952
Novel

Narrative date: Apr 1803May 1805
Published: Jul 27, 1962
Novel

Narrative date: May 1805Jun 1805
Published: Jun 4, 1967
Novel (unfinished)

Narrative date: Dec 1805Sep 1806
Published: Nov 9, 1953
Novel

Narrative date: Jun 1808Dec 1808
Published: Feb 4, 1937
Novel

Narrative date: Apr 1810Nov 1810
Published: Apr 4, 1938
Novel

Narrative date: Jul 1810
Published: May 1941
Short story (intended as a chapter of A Ship of the Line)

Narrative date: Dec 1810Jun 1811
Published: Nov 1, 1938
Novel

Narrative date: Apr 1812Dec 1812
Published: Mar 12, 1945
Novel

Narrative date: 1813
Published: Mar 1941
Short story

Narrative date: Oct 1813Jun 1815
Published: Jun 11, 1946
Novel

Narrative date: May 1821Jul 1823
Published: Sep 29, 1958
Novel

Narrative date: Sep 1848Dec 1848
Published: Jun 4, 1967
Short story

Cairo, Egypt Foresters birthplace

The Cairo Citadel, late nineteenth century

On the Way between Old and New Cairo by Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1872

OR, BEAT TO QUARTERS

Published in Britain in 1937 by Michael Joseph Ltd, this novel was entitled Beat to Quarters in Little, Brown & Cos American edition. Happy Return is chronologically the fifth book in the Hornblower series, but the first to be written. The Hornblower series evolved from Foresters lifelong interest in naval history, in particular, naval battles from the early decades of the nineteenth century. Notable historical figures from the time, such as Wellington and Nelson, provided some of Hornblowers finer characteristics. Appropriately, the character was first developed during a long sea voyage taken by Forester in 1937, during an unsettled period in the authors life, when he was already largely living in California and working for the film industry; he had decided to take a long sea voyage to Central America to think through his career. Hornblowers name was inspired by a film producer Forester worked with briefly Arthur Hornblow. The fictional sea captains first name, Horatio, was derived from the character in Hamlet, not, as might reasonably be assumed, from Admiral Nelsons first name. It has been suggested that Hornblower is a partly autobiographical character and certainly in his tall, thin physique, he closely resembles his creator.