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Cecil Scott Forester , pseudônimo de Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (Cairo , 27 de agosto de 1899 — Fullerton , 2 de abril de 1966 ) foi um escritor britânico nascido no Egito .
Ficou conhecido pelos contos de aventura sobre temas militares. Suas obras mais famosas são os onze livros da série Horatio Hornblower , que se passa na era napoleônica , e The African Queen , publicado em 1935 e filmado em 1951 por John Huston . Suas novelas A Ship of the Line e Flying Colours foram premiadas em 1938 com o James Tait Black Memorial Prize ficção . É autor também de duas novelas policiais e dois livros infantis.
É uma das duas únicas pessoas que se conhece que tenham lido duas edições diferentes da Encyclopædia Britannica , o outro é o comerciante Amos Urban Shirk .
1922 Victor Emmanuel II . Methuen?
1924 A Pawn among Kings . Methuen.
1924 Napoleon and his Court . Methuen.
1924 The Paid Piper . Methuen .
1925 Josephine, Napoleon’s Empress . Methuen.
1926 Payment Deferred
1927 Love Lies Dreaming . John Lane .
1927 One Wonderful Week . John Lane.
1927 Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy . Methuen.
1928 The Daughter of the Hawk . John Lane.
1928 Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre . Methuen.
1929 Brown on Resolution
1929 Nelson . John Lane.
1929 The Voyage of the Annie Marble . John Lane.
1930 Plain Murder . John Lane.
1930 The Annie Marble in Germany . John Lane.
1931 Two-and-Twenty . John Lane.
1931 U 97, a Play in 3 Acts . John Lane.
1932 Morte aos Franceses - no original Death to the French . John Lane.
1933 The Gun
1933 Nurse Cavell . (a Play in 3 Acts, with C. E. Bechhofer Roberts ) John Lane.
1934 The Peacemaker . Heinemann .
1935 The African Queen
1935 The Pursued (a lost novel, not published until 2011, see below).
1936 The General Michael Joseph .
1936 Marionettes at Home . Michael Joseph.
1937 The Happy Return Beat to Quarters
1938 A Ship of the Line
1938 Flying Colours
1940 The Earthly Paradise . Michael Joseph.
1941 The Captain from Connecticut
1942 Poo-Poo and the Dragons . Michael Joseph.
1943 The Ship
1943 The Barbary Pirates . Lyonsmith
1944 The Bedchamber Mystery . to which is added the story of The Eleven Deckchairs and Modernity and Maternity . S. J. Reginald Saunders. Published in the US as Three Matronly Mysteries . eNet Press.
1945 The Commodore Commodore Hornblower
1946 Lord Hornblower
1948 The Sky and the Forest . Michael Joseph.
1950 Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
1950 Randall and the River of Time . Michael Joseph.
1952 Lieutenant Hornblower
1953 Hornblower and the Atropos
1953 The Adventures of John Wetherell . Doubleday & Company , Inc.
1954 The Nightmare . Michael Joseph.
1955 The Good Shepherd
1957 The Naval War of 1812 . Michael Joseph. Published in the US as The Age of Fighting Sail
1958 Hornblower in the West Indies Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
1959 Hunting the Bismarck . Michael Joseph. Published in the US as The Last Nine Days of the Bismark
1962 Hornblower and the Hotspur
1964 The Young Hornblower . (a compilation of books 1, 2 & 3). Michael Joseph.
1964 The Hornblower Companion . Michael Joseph.
1965 Captain Hornblower (a compilation of books 5, 6 & 7). Michael Joseph.
1967 Hornblower and the Crisis , an unfinished novelHornblower During the Crisis
1967 Long before Forty . Michael Joseph.
1968 Admiral Hornblower (a compilation of books 8, 9, 10 & 11). Michael Joseph.
1969 The Man in the Yellow Raft . Michael Joseph.
1971 Gold from Crete . Michael Joseph.
2011 Hornblower Addendum – Five Short Stories (originally published in magazines)
2011 The Pursued (a lost novel rediscovered in 1999), published by Penguin Classics [ 1]
↑ "A note on the text", endnote by Lawrence Brewer, p. 220
Cairo, 
Egito
Estados Unidos
