Admiral Hornblower - Flying Colours, The Commodore, Lord Hornblower,
Hornblower in the West Indies
Book description
An omnibus edition compromising of four C S Forester's classic
seafaring tales about Horatio Hornblower, namely: Flying Colours, The
Commodore, Lord Hornblower and Hornblower in the West Indies.
C. S. Forester was born in Cairo in 1899, where his father was
stationed as a government official. He studied medicine at Guy's
Hospital and, after leaving Guy's without a degree, he turned to
writing as a career.
His first success was Payment Deferred, a novel written at the age
of twenty-four and later dramatized and filmed with Charles Laughton
in the leading role. In 1932 Forester was offered a Hollywood
contract, and from then until 1939 he spent thirteen weeks of every
year in America.
On the outbreak of war he entered the Ministry of Information and
later he sailed with the Royal Navy to collect the material for The
Ship. He made a voyage to the Bering Sea to gather material for a
similar book on the United States Navy, and it was during this trip
that he was stricken with arteriosclerosis, a disease which left him
crippled. However, he continued to write and in the Hornblower novels
created the most renowned sailor in contemporary fiction. He died in 1966.
