HORNBLOWER TO SAIL AGAIN
Author Tells Of New Book
“The Press" Special Service
AUCKLAND, January 15. Horatio Hornblower, famous fictional character of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, will be running the French blockade again in May. The creator of the character, Mr C. S Forester, announced this in Auckland The new book “Hornblower the Hotspur,” will be published simultaneously in Britain and America.
It fills in the only gap left in Hornblower’s adventurous life, telling of his first marriage and how he became a captain. A short story about the last adventure Hornblower could possibly have has been written, but it is locked in a bank vault and will be published when Mr Forester dies.
“I’d be silly to cook the goose that lays the golden egg.” Mr Forester Said. “I don’t know that I do feel sad now that his life is over for me. There is just that wonderful relief after four months of the hardest toil imaginable. “I started the book on July 5 and finished it on November 5.”
It is exactly 25 years since the 82-year-old British-born author wrote his first Hornblower book, “The Happy Return."
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29722, 16 January 1962, Page 13
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