C S Forester: 63 books

For all his young life Albert Brown had known that he was to join the Navy, and the beginning of the First World War finds him a Leading Seaman. Alone on the barren island of Resolution in the South Pacific, he fights against the might of a German battleship. This is the first of C.S.Forester's novels about the sea.

In Randall and the River of Time we're taken along on a young man's journey from a naïve child to a mature, experienced adult. Although just a teenager during WWI, Charles Randall learns quickly how to stay alive during battle. During his first leave he meets two people who forever change his...

The Barbary pirates came from the four North African countries of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli — known as the Barbary States.  What began as Mohammedans making war on Christians, turned into centuries of raids on merchant vessels, and forced slavery. Only a year after America and England...

In Plain Murder, C. S. Forester takes us into the life and mind of an ordinary man, husband and father living and working in England in the late 1920's. Mr. Morris and a couple of co-workers were caught taking bribes, and were in danger of losing their jobs. Because of the desperate need for income,...

From 1807 until 1814,  armies from Napoleon's empire fought the allied powers of Spain, Britain and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula. The Penisular Wars or Guerra de la Independencia (“War of Independence”) contributed considerably to Napoleon’s eventual downfall; but until 1813...

Mr. and Mrs. Marble live  in a rather seedy house at 53 Malcolm Road in London, certainly not the best part of town, but it's all they can afford considering that neither Mr. or Mrs. Marble can live within their means.  They are always in debt with no way out, until a nephew arrives one...

The Ship is the heroic tale of a few hours in the life of a British light cruiser in World War II, and of the men on it. Before writing The Ship, C.S.Forester spent several weeks on a similar warship, and has given us a very clear picture of the actual thoughts and emotions of the men as they carry...

C. S. Forester's Three Matronly Mysteries contains three short stories, each with its own intriguing twist. In The Eleven Deck Chairs, a group of eleven distinguished and attractive women (ten with government officials for husbands) are being shipped to another location for some reason during...

Author C. S. Forester was a history enthusiast who contributed many illuminating articles to popular publications of his day. His interest spanned centuries, his research was impeccable, and, as a story teller to the core, he makes the facts came to life with compelling force. Included in...

 C.S. Forester followed the action the Pacific Theater during WW II with pen in hand ready to record and analyze the events as they unfolded. Although these stories are told by one of the world's greatest naval warfare novelists, the developments and bursts of human ingenuity as well as inevitable...

World famous naval warfare novelist, C.S. Forester, followed the action of WW 2 with the astute eye of a historian as well as the vibrant pen of a storyteller attuned to both the events that made headlines as well as the behind-the-scenes of human triumphs and errors that shaped the outcome of the...

Although unfinished prior to C.S.Forester's death, Hornblower During the Crisis introduces Hornblower to the makings of a spy. Through fortuitous circumstances and quick wittedness, Hornblower, in action with a man who replaced him and then who immediately sunk the ship Hornblower had commanded for...

Inspired by a marionette show he saw, C.S. Forester, a novelist and theatre lover, decided to create his own puppet theatre at home. In Marionettes at Home, first published in 1936, he shares his experience and enthusiasm for amateur puppeteering and takes the reader step-by-step through the stages...

First published in 1927, Love Lies Dreaming is one of C.S Forester's earliest novels. Told in the voice of a young writer struggling to pen his next novel and therefore superficially preoccupied with the art of novel writing, at its true core this is a story about the quarrels and joys of early married...