He made his name with tales of valiant battles fought by his naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. But CS Forester's hidden talent as a racy thriller writer with a penchant for steamy scenes and risqué plot ...

The action of the Hornblower saga, a series of eleven novels and several short stories by C. S. Forester, begins in 1794. At that point in his life, Horatio Hornblower is a penniless, orphaned ...

When I was 10 years old, I went off to sea in a British frigate to battle Napoleon's navy and thwart his ambitions in Europe. I made this perilous journey courtesy of C.S. Forester and his wonderful ...

An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past Earlier this month, for its annual holiday issue, Book World asked several literary ...