[Horatio Hornblower 09] • Commodore Hornblower
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- Authors
- Forester, C.S.
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Tags
- action & adventure , great britain , great britain - history; naval - 19th century , adventure , napoleonic wars; 1800-1815 , literary , war stories , sea stories , historical fiction , fiction , historical , classics
- ISBN
- 9780316289382
- Date
- 1945-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.35 MB
- Lang
- en
These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know", are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.
-- The Hornblower renaissance is in full sail with a nearly tenfold increase in sales: more than I5O, OOO Hornblower books sold in the first six months of 1999.
-- The A&E television network's series of original movies based on Hornblower's adventures have been tremendously successful -- praised by critics, enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of viewers, and winner of the Emmy Award for best miniseries.
-- Two new movies will be premiering in the spring on A&E.
-- Readers and booksellers who admire Patrick O'Brian's novels delight in discovering this "new" series of nautical adventure stories.