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 ...

LORD HORNBLOWER (322 pp.)—C. S. Forester—Liftie, Brown ($2.50). H.M.S. Flame, 18-gun brig, lies hove to near the French coast. “Insolent rascals, mutinous dogs,” splutters the First Lord of the ...

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 ...