Mr Midshipman Hornblower

di C.S. Forester (Autore)

Penguin Books Ltd, 2017

Join young Horatio Hornblower in the thrilling naval adventure from the author of The Good Shepherd, now a major-motion picture starring Tom Hanks 'A joyous creation, a perfection in words. Young Hornblower is, simply, one of the most complete creations of character in fiction' Conn Iggulden, The Independent _______ 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command . . . As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. After a character-forming duel, several deadly chases and some dramatic captures and escapes, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea. This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable hero, Horatio Hornblower. _______ 'Absolutely compelling. One of the great masters of narrative' San Francisco Chronicle

• Autore: C.S. Forester
• Editore: Penguin Books Ltd
• Collana: A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 320 p.
• Dimensioni: 201 x 130 mm
• Peso: 228 gr.
• EAN: 9781405928298

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