Bibliography
Title | Publication Year | Approximate Period of Setting | Notes |
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The Happy Return | 1937 | 1808 | Published as Beat to Quarters in the U.S. |
A Ship of the Line | 1938 | 1810 | Published as Ship of the Line in the U.S. |
Flying Colours | 1938 | 1810–1811 | Published as Flying Colors in some U.S. editions |
The Hand of Destiny | 1940 | 1800/1803 | Short story published in Collier's. Lieutenant Hornblower negotiates a mutiny |
Hornblower's Charitable Offering | 1941 | 1810 | Also known as The Bad Samaritan. Short story published published in Argosy. Originally intended as a chapter for A Ship of the Line (Captain Hornblower encounters marooned prisoners of war) |
Hornblower and His Majesty | 1941 | 1812 | Short story published in Collier's, March 1940, and in Argosy, March 1941. Hornblower, commanding the royal yacht Augusta, must take the King on a voyage in the English Channel, amidst the peril of American privateers |
The Commodore | 1945 | 1812 | Published as Commodore Hornblower in the U.S. |
Lord Hornblower | 1946 | 1813–1814 | |
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | 1950 | 1794–1798 | |
Lieutenant Hornblower | 1952 | 1800–1803 | |
Hornblower and the Atropos | 1953 | 1805–1808 | |
Hornblower in the West Indies | 1958 | 1821–1823 | Published as Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies in some U.S. editions |
Hornblower and the Hotspur | 1962 | 1803–1805 | |
Hornblower and the Crisis | 1967 | 1805 | Unfinished novel |
Hornblower and the Widow McCool | 1967 | 1799 | Short story |
The Last Encounter | 1967 | 1848 | Short story |
Another short story "The Point And The Edge" is included as an outline only in Forester's The Hornblower Companion (1964)
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