C. S. Forester (1899–1966)
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Born Cecil Louis Troughton Smith on August 27, 1899, in Cairo, Egypt, where his father was a government official, C. S. Forester grew up mainly in England. He was educated at Dulwich College, studying medicine briefly before decidint to become a writer. Forester moved to the United States before vis mere the start of World War II, and lived in Berkeley, California, until his death in 1966. Although Forester was a journalist, a novelist and a Hollywood scriptwriter, he is probably best known for his historical fiction, particularly the series of novels that feature Horatio Hornblower. The eleven-book series begins with Mr. Midshipmen Hornblower, in which the seventeen-year old Hornblower joins the British navy in 1793, just as the Napoleonic Wars are about to begin. Hornblower's continuing adventures, as well as his advancement to the highest ranks of the navy, are chronicled in further books, including Beat to Quarters, Flying Colours, Commodore Hornblower, Lord Hornblower, The Happy Return, and A Ship of the Line, for which Forester recived the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1939. Several of Forester's novels were made into films, most notably Payment Deferred (his first novel published in 1926), Eagle Squadron, The Commandos (the movie title was The Commandos Strike at Dawn), Captain Horatio Hornblower, Sink the Bismarck!, and The African Queen, starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. Forester's nonfiction includes The Age of Fighting Sail: The Story of the Naval War of 1812, as well as biographies of Lord Nelson, Napoleon, Josephine, and King Louis XIV. He also wrote an autobiography, Long Before Forty. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af C. S. Forester
Captain Horatio Hornblower: Beat to Quarters / Ship of the Line / Flying Colours (1939) 541 eksemplarer
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower / Lieutenant Hornblower / Hornblower and the Hotspur (1950) 401 eksemplarer
Captain Hornblower R. N.: Hornblower and the Atropos / The Happy Return / A Ship of the Line (1937) 363 eksemplarer
Admiral Hornblower Omnibus: Flying Colours / The Commodore / Lord Hornblower / Hornblower in the West Indies (1996) 285 eksemplarer
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower / Lieutenant Hornblower / Hornblower and the Atropos (1900) 230 eksemplarer
The Ship / Mr. Midshipman Hornblower / The Earthly Paradise / The General / The Captain from Connecticut / The African… (1977) 37 eksemplarer
Captain Horatio Hornblower, Part II 15 eksemplarer
Captain Horatio Hornblower (Hornblower and the Atropos; The Happy Return; A Ship of the Line; Flying Colors) (2019) — Forfatter — 13 eksemplarer
A Ship of the Line / Flying Colours / The Commodore / Lord Hornblower / Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (1994) 11 eksemplarer
The Last Encounter [short story] 7 eksemplarer
Captain Horatio Hornblower, Part I 7 eksemplarer
The Bedchamber Mystery with which is included the story of The Eleven Deckchairs and Modernity and Maternity (1944) 6 eksemplarer
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower / Lieutenant Hornblower / Hornblower and the Hotspur / Hornblower and the Crisis (1953) — Forfatter — 6 eksemplarer
One Wonderful Week 6 eksemplarer
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower / Lieutenant Hornblower / Hornblower and the Hotspur / Hornblower and the Atropos / Beat to… (1994) 3 eksemplarer
Horatio Hornblower books 3 eksemplarer
The Man in the Yellow Raft [short story] 3 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Best Loved Books for Young Readers, Volume Three: Captain Horatio Hornblower/ Jane Eyre/ My Friend… 2 eksemplarer
Capt Horatio Hornblower 2 eksemplarer
The Point and the Edge [short story] 2 eksemplarer
Le avventure del capitano Hornblower (3 Volumi) 2 eksemplarer
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower / Lieutenant Hornblower / Hornblower and the Hotspur / Hornblower During the Crisis /… 2 eksemplarer
The Voyage of the "Annie Marble" 2 eksemplarer
Breng de Bismarck tot zinken! 1 eksemplar
UM MONSTRO 1 eksemplar
Des Königs Admiral : Roman in 2 Büchern 1 eksemplar
Greyhound (Movie Tie-In): A Novel 1 eksemplar
Capitan Horacio Hornblower 1 eksemplar
"Bismarck'? Bat?r?n?z" 1 eksemplar
Il capitano Hornblower 1 eksemplar
Captain Horatio Hornblower - Vol. II (of 3) 1 eksemplar
The Hornblower saga. Admiral Hornblower 1 eksemplar
Hornblower's Temptation 1 eksemplar
Hornblower and The Last Encounter 1 eksemplar
The Earthly Paradise 1 eksemplar
The Point and the Edge 1 eksemplar
Horatio Hornblower 1 eksemplar
Orgoglio e passione 1 eksemplar
De jonge Hornblower de jonge jaren van Horatio Hornblower, de legendarische zeeheld die vocht op zeven zeeën 1 eksemplar
Konvoi 1943 1 eksemplar
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower / Lieutenant Hornblower / Hornblower and the Atropos / The Happy Return 1 eksemplar
Il cielo e la foresta 1 eksemplar
Der Kapitän Roman in 3 Büchern 1 eksemplar
Der junge Hornblower : Roman in 3 Büchern 1 eksemplar
Ship in the line 1 eksemplar
L'incrociatore 1 eksemplar
Hornblower During the Crisis / Hornblower and the Atropos / Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies 1 eksemplar
The Eleven Deckchairs [short story] 1 eksemplar
. El Cairo, 27/8/1899 - Fullerton, USA, 2/4/1966 1 eksemplar
Lieutenant Hornblower / Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies / A Ship of the Line (1900) 1 eksemplar
Gold from Crete [short story] 1 eksemplar
Paradiso terrestre 1 eksemplar
The Bedchamber Mystery [short story] 1 eksemplar
Rendevous 1 eksemplar
Horatio Hornblower: Collector's Edition 1 eksemplar
Der Kapitän Roman in 3 Büchern: Der Kapitän - An Spaniens Küsten - Unter wehender Flagge 1 eksemplar
Fähnrich Hornblower 1 eksemplar
Castigo Adiado 1 eksemplar
Simples Assassínio 1 eksemplar
Le avventure del capitano Hornblower 1 eksemplar
Il ritorno di Hornblower 1 eksemplar
Hornblower i Östersjön 1 eksemplar
Rivulets of Blood 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Mammoth Book of Men O'War: Stories from the Glory Days of Sail (1999) — Bidragyder — 91 eksemplarer
Dreadnought: A History of the Modern Battleship (1739) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 81 eksemplarer
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories (2002) — Bidragyder — 77 eksemplarer
The Mammoth Book of Hearts of Oak: Classic and New Stories from the Age of Fighting Sail (2001) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
The Greatest War Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Four Incredible War Tales (2001) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
To the Queen's Taste: The First Supplement to 101 Years' Entertainment; Consisting of the Best Stories Published in the… (1946) — Bidragyder — 24 eksemplarer
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
More Murder on Cue: Stage, Screen & Radio Favorites: Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1988) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1958, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1958) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Bel Ria • The Naked Country • The Physicians • Captain Horatio Hornblower •… (1977) 7 eksemplarer
Voor en na middernacht : vierendertig beroemde spook- en griezelverhalen (1949) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
Het dagboek in de sneeuw : en andere griezelverhalen — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
20th Century Fox Studio Classics Collection: Volume 11 (The Blue Max / The Desert Fox / Immortal Sergeant / Sink the… — Writer — 6 eksemplarer
The Great Train Robbery • Blind Love • Brown on Resolution • Where are the Children? • Among the Elephants (1974) 5 eksemplarer
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1956, Vol. 10, No. 6 (1956) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Payment Deferred: A Play in a Prologue, Three Acts and an Epilogue (1934) — Original novel — 3 eksemplarer
Heroes of War Collection - Navy Battles (The Enemy Below, The Frogmen, Morituri, Sink the Bismarck!) — Writer — 3 eksemplarer
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1962 — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
High Moment: Stories of Supreme Crises in the Lives of Great Men — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Selecciones Reader's Digest: (libros condensados) El Gran Robo del Tren. Un Hombre Contra un Crucero. La Canción de… (1977) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Argosy: December 1964 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Argosy, May 14, 1938 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Argosy, January 7, 1939 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Argosy, January 18, 1941 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Lilliput Magazine. November - December 1952. Vol. 31 no. 6. Issue no. 186. — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Argosy (UK) [Vol. IV No. 5, June 1943] — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Saturday Evening Post July 16, 1966 No. 15 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Forever England [1935 film] — Original novel — 1 eksemplar
Ellery Queen's 1966 Anthology — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Synnitön lankeemus [1943 film] — Original story — 1 eksemplar
My Most Exciting Story: A Collection of Stories Chosen by Their Own Authors (1936) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Argosy, March 19, 1938 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Eagle Squadron [1942 film] — Story — 1 eksemplar
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1958/08 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
Great tales of adventure: A selection of condensed novels and full-length short stories (1982) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Forester, C. S.
- Juridisk navn
- Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton
- Andre navne
- Forester, Cecil Scott
- Fødselsdato
- 1899-08-27
- Dødsdag
- 1966-04-02
- Begravelsessted
- Loma Vista Memorial Park, Fullerton, California, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- England, UK
- Fødested
- Cairo, Egypt
- Dødssted
- Fullerton, California, USA
- Dødsårsag
- stroke
- Bopæl
- Cairo, Egypt
London, England, UK
Berkeley, California, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Fullerton, California, USA - Uddannelse
- Alleyn's School, London
Dulwich College, London
Guy's Hospital, London - Erhverv
- novelist
short-story writer
journalist
screenwriter - Relationer
- Forester, John (son)
- Organisationer
- British Ministry of Information (WWII)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1939)
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