Captain Horatio Hornblower (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Setting: Various oceans, Europe, and South America
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Sea story
- Subjects: Freedom, Values, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Leadership, War, Ships, Idealism, Sea or seafaring life, Adventure, Military life or service, Heroes or heroism, Pacific Ocean, Battles, Navies, Napoleonic Wars
- Locales: France, Oceans, South America
Characters Discussed
Captain Horatio Hornblower, the commander of HMS Lydia and HMS Sutherland, British warships of the Napoleonic era. He is brilliant, brave, and skillful, but he is also shy and consumed by self-doubt, and he rigorously disciplines himself against a natural talkativeness. During his many adventures, he sinks the hostile warship Natividad while commanding the much smaller Lydia, heroically cripples a French squadron at the cost of losing theSutherland, is captured by the French, is reported dead, escapes, seizes a captured...
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