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Title: C.S. Forester and the Hornblower Saga by Sanford V. Sternlicht ISBN: 0-8156-0621-4 Publisher: Syracuse University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent, well-written source of info on C S Forester
Comment: This fascinating and engaging book is the only critical/literary biography about novelist C S Forester (1899-1966) in print. It stands up very well as both a biography and a work of literary criticism. Lovers of the Horatio Hornblower novels, always hungry for more insights into the great captain's life, will find in this book a treasure trove, for a fictional character can only be truly understood when one knows more about the actual source of the character -- C S Forester. But this book covers all of Forester's major works, not just the Hornblower series. Author Sanford Sternlicht spins the tale of Forester's paradoxical and complex life and personality with the engaging touch of the novelist himself, but with the distance necessary for a critical biography. Sternlicht provides compelling and thorough insights into nearly all of Forester's writings [the few exceptions being two plays, a children's book, and some non-Hornblower short fiction], which include his novels (The African Queen, The General, Payment Deferred, the entire Hornblower saga, Hunting the Bismarck, and many more), history (The Age of Fighting Sail, and others), biography (Josephine: Napoleon's Empress, and others), and two travelogues. Forester's appeal and great popularity as a writer of fiction is examined in detail by Mr Sternlicht, who clearly knows his subject matter well. This is a revised edition of the 1981 first edition published by G. K. Hall, one of the TWAYNE'S ENGLISH AUTHOR SERIES books. Having read both editions, I can say without hesitation that the revised edition is a fresh and informative as the first, and that it is indeed a "revised" edition, with considerably more detail provided about Forester's home life (Sternlicht acknowledges new sources of information, including the significant addition of Forester's oldest son, John).
Forester's writing has a tremendous true-to-life, "verismo" quality which transports the reader into the time and place of the novel in hand. He achieved this by having an almost encyclopedic knowledge of those times and places, and by being able to put that knowledge to brilliant use in the some of the most fascinating books I have ever read, books which bear many, many readings and which stand up so well to those readings that one is left wanting even more Forester to read. He was truly a giant of popular culture, not just in America and Britain but worldwide, from the late 1930's to the 1960's. Sanford Sternlicht provides a very welcome door into the life and works of C S Forester, and this new book will be a very welcome addition to your bookshelf.
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Title: Hornblower and the Hotspur (Hornblower Series) by C.S. Forester ISBN: 0316290467 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lieutenant Hornblower by C.S. Forester ISBN: 0316290637 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title:Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World (Widescreen Special Two-Disc Set) ASIN: B0001DI0FI Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox Home Video Pub. Date: 20 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $39.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $25.99 |
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