Books

The following is a chronological listing. Most of C. S. Forester’s books are still available 2nd hand (see table for a rough price estimate). Many of these titles are also available as eBooks (all formats) from eNet Press.

Year UK Title UK Publishers n *) range **)
1924 A Pawn among Kings Methuen 8 600-5000
1924 The Paid Piper Methuen 3 130-450
1924 Napoleon and his Court Methuen 30 25-1100
1925 Josephine, Napoleon’s Empress Methuen 20 25-4500
1926 Payment Deferred Methuen 150 1-1500
1927 Love Lies Dreaming John Lane 10 35-500
1927 The Wonderful Week John Lane 15 10-3200
1927 Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy Methuen 30 20-270
1928 The Shadow of the Hawk John Lane 30 2-3200
1928 Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre Methuen 60 10-75
1929 Brown on Resolution John Lane 50 5-3500
1929 Nelson John Lane 90 4-1500
1929 The Voyage of the Annie Marble John Lane 20 5-440
1930 Plain Murder John Lane 160 1-100
1930 The Annie Marble in Germany John Lane 5 55-350
1931 Two-and-Twenty John Lane 5 70-2100
1931 U 97 John Lane 5 100-400
1932 Death to the French John Lane 100 1-770
1933 The Gun John Lane 350 1-1700
1933 Nurse Cavell (with CE Bechhofer Roberts) John Lane 0
1934 The Peacemaker Heinemann 50 1-1100
1935 The African Queen Heinemann 450 1-5100
1936 The General Michael Joseph 230 1-760
1936 Marionettes at Home Michael Joseph 15 55-430
1937 The Happy Return Michael Joseph 170 1-3100
1938 A Ship of the Line Michael Joseph 380 1-2900
1938 Flying Colours Michael Joseph 300 1-2350
1940 The Earthly Paradise Michael Joseph 120 1-1100
1941 The Captain from Connecticut Michael Joseph 280 1-620
1942 Poo-Poo and the Dragons Michael Joseph 30 40-525
1943 The Ship Michael Joseph 500 1-700
1945 The Commodore Michael Joseph 280 1-100
1945 The Happy Return Stockerman 150 1-3100
1946 Lord Hornblower Michael Joseph 825 1-150
1948 The Sky and the Forest Michael Joseph 490 1-1150
1950 Mr Midshipman Hornblower Michael Joseph 510 1-300
1950 Randall and the River of Time Michael Joseph 280 1-1150
1952 Lieutenant Hornblower Michael Joseph 525 1-200
1952 Horatio Hornblower omnibus edition:

  • The Commodore
  • Lord Hornblower
 Michael Joseph
1953 Hornblower and the Atropos Michael Joseph 350 1-980
1954 The Nightmare Michael Joseph 140 1-220
1954 The Adventures of John Wetherell Michael Joseph 75 1-200
1955 The Good Shepherd Michael Joseph 490 1-350
1956 The Barbary Pirates Macdonald 160 1-150
1957 The Naval War of 1812/Age of Fighting Sail Michael Joseph 160 1-150
1958 Hornblower in the West Indies Michael Joseph 440 1-175
1959 Hunting the Bismarck Michael Joseph 350 1-580
1962 Hornblower and the Hotspur Michael Joseph 390 2-275
1964 The Young Hornblower omnibus edition:

  • Mr Midshipman Hornblower
  • Lieutenant Hornblower
  • Hornblower and the Atropos
 Michael Joseph
1964 The Hornblower Companion Michael Joseph 124 1-210
1965 Captain Hornblower RN omnibus edition:

  • The Happy Return
  • A Ship of the Line
  • Flying Colours
 Michael Joseph
1967 Hornblower and the Crisis, an unfinished novel:

  • comprising Hornblower’s Temptation
  • The Last Encounter
 Michael Joseph
1967 Long before Forty Michael Joseph 60 7-75
1968 Admiral Hornblower omnibus edition:

  • Flying Colours
  • The Commodore
  • Lord Hornblower
  • Hornblower in the West Indies
 Michael Joseph
1969 The Man in the Yellow Raft Michael Joseph 110 1-100
1970 The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower (with C Northcote Parkinson) Michael Joseph
1971 Gold from Crete Michael Joseph 110 1-175
2011 The Pursued Penguin  10  15 
 

*) n=approximate number of copies (any edition) available 2nd hand, Dec 2010
**) range=approximate price range in euro of the above  

A complete C. S. Forester bibliography can be downloaded by clicking here.

This bibliography comes from Mark Wilden’s website,
currently not online anymore (http://www.mwilden.com/forester/)

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