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Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester; Christian Rodska (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Hornblower Ser.
The midshipman who was seasick in Spithead ...Shaking off this label, a shy and lonely 17-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy on HMS Justinian. In action, adventure, and battle he is forged into one of the most formidable junior officers in the service.
Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
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 B ...Show more
Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea Ser.
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 ...Show more
Mr Midshipman Hornblower Vol 1 by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
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 B ...Show more
Payment Deferred by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction
Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. In fact, his troubles are only just beginning. Slowly the Marble family becomes poisoned by guilt, and caught in a da ...Show more
Payment Deferred (Crime & Espionage Claasics) by C. S. Forester
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Penguin Crime Ser.
A twisting psychological thriller of a family caught in a murderous trap of their own makingMr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. Slowly the Marble family ...Show more
Plain Murder by C. S. Forester
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, a murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of the person who caught them. Their ringleader, thick-set and vicious Mr Morris, soon discovers that k ...Show more
Plain Murder (Popular Penguins Crime) by C. S. Forester
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue. What does Mr. Morris do when he thinks someone might rat him out? He gets rid of them. Actually, it's surprisingly easy, he discovers. A talent he never k ...Show more
Ship Of The Line, A by C.S. Forester
Category: Fiction
It is May, 1810 - and thirty-nine-year-old Captain, Horatio Hornblower has been handed his first ship of the line. Though the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland is 'the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy', Hornblower knows that by the time Sutherland and her squadron reach the blockaded Cat ...Show more
The African Queen by C.S. Forester
Category: Classic Fiction
The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat - not the kind of boat anyone would take down a dangerous river through the jungles of Central Africa. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnut do just that.
The African Queen (Macmillan Collector's Library) by C. S. Forester
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Central Africa, 1914; Rose Sayer, a thirty-three year-old English woman, is left alone when her missionary brother dies. Her only route out is aboard The African Queen, a steam-powered launch captained by Cockney mechanic, Charlie Alnutt. Determined to do her bit for the war effort and to avenge her bro ...Show more