C. S. Forester - Free Library Land Online

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]]> Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:47:28 +0200 The Peacemaker https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63004-the_peacemaker.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63004-the_peacemaker.html

In one of London's outer suburbs lived a shabby insignificant schoolteacher with a repulsive, drunken wife. Experimenting with his secret invention was his only escape - until a headmaster's pacifist daughter brought sex and idealism into his life. Then came the 'Peacemaker' - that curious lunatic who wrote to The Times threatening to spread confusion until there was total disarmament? Could the sexual awakening of this shy, retiring man have inspired him to create the chaos that now reigned throughout London?]]> Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:47:28 +0200 Gold From Crete https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63006-gold_from_crete.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63006-gold_from_crete.html

Nine vivid tales of the Second World War building up to a tense and imaginative climax.]]> Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:47:28 +0200 Sink the Bismarck! https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63005-sink_the_bismarck.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63005-sink_the_bismarck.html

The true story of Hitler’s mightiest battleship, how in the early days of World War II, it was hunted, fought, and destroyed in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic as recounted by the international best-selling author C.S. Forester.]]> Sat, 31 Oct 1992 12:47:28 +0200 The Daughter of the Hawk https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63017-the_daughter_of_the_hawk.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63017-the_daughter_of_the_hawk.html

She was the daughter of a scapegrace who left her in the hands of another... Escaped from an island prison more deadly than Devil's Island, Dawkins has everything to lose and nothing to gain by not getting involved with young Nina. But he had promised to protect her no matter what the cost...]]> Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:47:30 +0200 Love Lies Dreaming https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63007-love_lies_dreaming.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63007-love_lies_dreaming.html

First published in 1927, Love Lies Dreaming is one of C.S Forester's earliest novels. Told in the voice of a young writer struggling to pen his next novel and therefore superficially preoccupied with the art of novel writing, at its true core this is a story about the quarrels and joys of early married life. In the end, as the narrator discovers, the best inspiration for good novel writing comes from the very ordinary jealousies and insecurities that make up his daily relationship with his wife, Constance. Written tenderly, but without nostalgia, this novel is a commentary on what it means to be young, married and in love, and is as relevant today as when it was first published.]]> Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:47:29 +0200 Death to the French (aka Rifleman Dodd) https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63018-death_to_the_french_aka_rifleman_dodd.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63018-death_to_the_french_aka_rifleman_dodd.html

]]> Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:47:30 +0200 The Ship https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63022-the_ship.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63022-the_ship.html

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.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Captain Hornblower R. N. https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63020-captain_hornblower_r_n_.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63020-captain_hornblower_r_n_.html

"Hornblower and the Atropos" skippering the flagship for Nelson's funeral on the Thames is not Hornblower's idea of thrilling action. But soon his orders come, and he sets sail for the Mediterranean in the Atropos. 'Battle, storm, shipwreck, disease - what were the chances that he would never come back again?' "The happy return" Hornblower sails the South American waters and comes face to face with a mad, messianic revolutionary in a novel that ripples with risk and gripping adventure. "a ship of the line" commando raids, hurricanes at sea, the glowering menace of Napoleon's onshore gun batteries - Hornblower must deal with them all as he sails his ship to the Spanish station. Throughout his escapades Forester remains gallant, resourceful and courageous - the embodiment of all the most vivid in a great naval tradition.]]> Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:47:30 +0200 Greyhound (Movie Tie-In) https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/607492-greyhound_movie_tie-in.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/607492-greyhound_movie_tie-in.html

Soon to be the major motion picture Greyhound, a WWII naval thriller of "high and glittering excitement" (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series
The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the submarines, combating exhaustion, hunger, and thirst to protect fifty million dollars' worth of cargo and the lives of three thousand men. Originally published as The Good Shepherd and acclaimed as one of the best novels of the year upon publication in 1955, this novel is a riveting classic of WWII and naval warfare from one of...]]> Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:25:28 +0200 The Young Hornblower Omnibus https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63012-the_young_hornblower_omnibus.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63012-the_young_hornblower_omnibus.html

The Young Hornblower - a truly formidable force in His Majesty's ServiceThe seventeen-year-old Hornblower became notorious as soon as he stepped on board ship - as the midshipman who was seasick in Spithead. But he was soon to gain his sea legs.Amid battle, action and adventure he proves himself time and time again - courageous in danger, resourceful in moments of difficulty and decisive in times of trouble. The reader stands right beside him as he prepares to fight his first duel, feels the heat as he battles to control a blazing ship and shares his horror as he experiences for the first time the panic of the Plague.This omnibus edition contains:Mr Midshipman Hornblower Lieutenant Hornblower Hornblower and the 'Hotspur']]> Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:47:29 +0200 The Good Shepherd https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63011-the_good_shepherd.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63011-the_good_shepherd.html

]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:47:29 +0200 Payment Deferred https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63016-payment_deferred.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63016-payment_deferred.html

Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. In fact, his troubles are only just beginning. Slowly the Marble family becomes poisoned by guilt, and caught in an increasingly dangerous trap of secrets, fear and blackmail. Then, in a final twist of the knife, Mrs Marble ensures that retribution comes in the most unexpected of ways ...First published in 1926, C. S. Forester's gritty psychological thriller took crime writing in a new direction, portraying ordinary, desperate people committing monstrous acts, and showing events spiralling terribly, chillingly, out of control.]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:47:30 +0200 The Pursued https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63021-the_pursued.html https://anthologies.library.land/c-s-forester/63021-the_pursued.html

Marjorie had never seen a dead body until she got home one tranquil summer evening and found her sister Dot lying on the kitchen floor in a pretty dress, with her head in the oven. She looked peaceful, as if she was asleep. Their mother suspects, however, that Dot's death was far from natural. What's more, she knows who the killer is - and she is determined to make him suffer. So slowly and meticulously, she plots her revenge. After all, who would suspect a neatly dressed, grey-haired widow of anything? And what could possibly go wrong?The Pursued, C. S. Forester's dark, twisted tale of murder, lust and retribution, was written in 1935, but its typescript manuscript was lost. More than seven decades later, it has now been rediscovered and is published for the first time. It is a novel years ahead of its time; rewriting the traditions of crime fiction to create a gripping psychological portrayal of obsession, jealousy, torment and the grim underside of suburban London life.]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:47:30 +0200