A. C. There were omnibus editions published of the Hornblower titles starting in 1939. One of these was called Captain Hornblower.
David Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 22, 2016, at 8:31 AM, 'Antoine Capet' via ChurchillChat > <churchillchat@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I am continuing with the writing of my Dictionnaire Churchill for a Paris > publisher. > > Dealing with his readings, I am puzzled by what he writes in The Grand > Alliance (end of Chapter 23, “My meeting with Roosevelt” [Reprint Soc. ed, p. > 343]): > > “…Lyttleton…had given me _Captain Hornblower, R.N._, which I found very > entertaining.” > > But the list of Hornblower books by C.S. Forester includes no such title. > > The novels published before August 1941 are listed as: > - The Happy Return (1937) > -A Ship of the Line (1938) > -Flying Colours (1938) > > With three short stories: > - "Hornblower and His Majesty" (1941) > -"Hornblower and the Hand of Destiny" (1941) > -"Hornblower's Charitable Offering" (1941) > > Churchill and his “syndicate” obviously did not check when sending The Grand > Alliance to the publishers - I wonder what he meant by _Captain Hornblower, > R.N._? Were there variants in the Hornblower titles ? > > With all best wishes, > > Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS > Head of British Studies > University of Rouen > 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan > France > antoine.ca...@univ-rouen.fr > > 'Britain since 1914' Section Editor > Royal Historical Society Bibliography > > Reviews Editor of CERCLES > http://www.cercles.com/review/reviews.html > ========================================== > > > > --- > L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le > logiciel antivirus Avast. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ChurchillChat" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
