Men without women, getting wet – after Melville, Sinbad, and the Greeks, I thought I had exhausted my interest in this subject. I wasn’t even a childhood reader of C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower ...

The action of the Hornblower saga, a series of eleven novels and several short stories by C. S. Forester, begins in 1794. At that point in his life, Horatio Hornblower is a penniless, orphaned ...

Peter Weir did more than just read Patrick O’Brian’s books when he began pre-production on his seagoing adventure film, “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.” For more practical advice, ...

COMMODORE HORNBLOWER — C. S. Forester — Little, Brown ($2.50). “Get out my best uniform and sword! Have the horses put to in my chariot!” bellowed Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower when the Admiralty ...

Hornblower is back. The British Navy's go-to guy returns to television in two new A&E films this Sunday and next, making loyalty, honor and principle more fashionable than Tony Soprano for at least a ...

LIEUTENANT HORNBLOWER (306 pp.)—C. S. Forester—Little, Brown ($3.50). Foul was the night, and black the situation. Four hundred desperate Spaniards, crammed captive in the hold, had rushed in dead of ...

You would think that everyone would love me. Hard-working TV critic fights valiantly (albeit vainly) for viewers' rights and tirelessly trashes networks for their hours of insulting tripe? Okay, not ...

Sir Edward Pellew visits Horatio Hornblower who is jail in Jamaica awaiting his trial on a charge of making a mutiny. His problems began six months earlier when he was appointed Third Lieutenant ...