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Overview: Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure and military crusades. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Historical Fiction
Brown on Resolution
The autumn of 1914. In Europe, the warring nations are already locked in a bloody stalemate. But thousands of miles away, on the remote Pacific island of Resolution, a different—and very personal—battle is about to begin.
High among the island’s volcanic crags, a young English sailor gazes down on the German raider Ziethen, the battlecruiser whose guns had sunk his ship and sent his crewmates to their deaths. Armed only with a stolen rifle and stubborn, unquestioning courage, Leading Seaman Albert Brown is determined to stop Ziethen from making herself seaworthy and leaving Resolution before the searching British navy arrives. Even if it costs his twenty-year-old life . . .
Death to the French aka Rifleman Dodd
From the author of The African Queen and the Hornblower series, comes a thrilling novel of guerrilla warfare against Napoleon’s troops. In 1810, with Wellington’s army penned behind the Tigus, Rifleman Dodd becomes separated from his regiment. When he stumbles upon a band of Portuguese guerrillas, he transforms this ramshackle group into an organized fighting force that continually harries the infuriated enemy. A rousing war and adventure story.
The African Queen
A classic story of adventure and romance—the novel that inspired the legendary movie starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart
As World War I reaches the heart of the African jungle, Charlie Allnutt and Rose Sayer, a disheveled trader and an English spinster missionary, find themselves thrown together by circumstance. Fighting time, heat, malaria, and bullets, they make their escape on the rickety steamboat The African Queen . . . and hatch their own outrageous military plan.
The Earthly Paradise aka To the Indies
Being eaten alive by vermin and roasting under a tropical sun, Narciso Rich wondered what had induced him to agree to leave the comfortable law courts of Arragon for the rigours of Columbus’s voyage to the Indies.
It had been King Ferdinand’s wish, after the second disastrous expedition in search of gold and silver in the New World, that a reputable lawyer should accompany the third voyage and make a report.
So here he was, embarked on an adventure that would lead through hardship and danger, rebellion and mutiny – and to all the revelations of the earthly paradise.
The Ship
One vital convoy can break Mussolini’s stranglehold on Malta—but it is intercepted in the Mediterranean by enemy warships—Five light British cruisers are left to beat back the armed might of the Italian battle fleet and C.S. Forester—creator of Horatio Hornblower—takes us aboard HMS Artemis as she steams into battle against overwhelming odds. We get inside the heads of Artemis’s men, from the Captain on his bridge down to the lowest engine room rating, as they struggle over one long and terrifying afternoon to do their duty. C.S. Forester brilliantly recounts life aboard a British warship during some of the darkest days of the Second World War: capturing the urgency of the blazing guns, the thunderous rupturing of deck plates, the screams of pain and the shouts of triumph.
The Sky and the Forest
They came to violate Africa in their different ways, the Arab slave-trader and the white colonist.
The Arab came with the whip and the yoke, seeking slaves for wealthy households and the harems of the East.
The European brought the gun and the bible, to exploit – but to civilize too.
To the black peoples of Central Africa, both were alien, as strange and cruel as hostile creatures from another planet. Some natives, like Loa, womaniser, tyrant, proud chief of his people, tasted danger and bondage – and survived to organize a ruthless resistance.
Against the brooding, timeless backdrop of the sky and the forest they met – in a bloody and merciless struggle for supremacy…
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