British writer Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966) went by the pen name “C. S. Forester.” Born in Cairo, he was educated in London before eventually settling in California where he penned his remarkable series about Horatio Hornblower, a midshipman in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
The 11 novels and 5 short stories in the series are listed below in publication order:
- Beat to Quarters (1937), originally released as “The Happy Return” in the UK
- Ship of the Line (1938)
- Flying Colours (1938)
- “Hornblower and His Majesty” short story (1940)
- “The Hand of Destiny” short story (1940)
- “The Bad Samaritan” short story (1941) originally released in the UK as “Hornblower’s Charitable Offering”
- Commodore Hornblower (1945) originally released “The Commodore”
- Lord Hornblower (1946)
- Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
- “Hornblower’s Temptation” short story (1950), originally released as “Hornblower and the Big Decision”
- Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
- Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
- Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (1958), originally released as Hornblower in the West Indies
- Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962)
- “The Last Encounter” short story (1967)
- Hornblower During the Crisis (1967), originally released as “Hornblower and the Crisis”
Resources: The Hornblower Companion (1964) by C.S. Forester