Oxford Bookworms 4. Mr Midshipman Hornblower

Resumen del libro

'Hornblower fired.
There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang.
This is death, he thought.
My pistol was the unloaded one.' But Horatio Hornblower does not die.
He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over.
It is 1793, Britain is at war with France, and life on a sailing ship of war is hard and dangerous.
But the hardest battles are fought by Hornblower within himself.

Biografía del autor

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 10-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. The Hornblower novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include The African Queen (1935; turned into a 1951 film by John Huston) and The Good Shepherd (1955; turned into a 2020 film, Greyhound, adapted by and starring Tom Hanks).