Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
by C. S. Foresterliterary work· published 1950
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1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command... As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of seasickness, 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. With a character-forming duel, several chases and some strange tavern encounters, 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.
Adaptations (4)
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower has been adapted 4 times, across television series and television film, from 1998 to 1999. The most recent is The Duchess and the Devil (1999).
Hornblower1998 · television series · 96 min · dir. Andrew Grieve · IMDb ↗IMDb7.9Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.
The Even Chance1998 · television film · 93 min · dir. Andrew Grieve · IMDb ↗IMDb8.1Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.
