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The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623.

A shy and lonely seventeen-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy - and becomes one of the most formidable junior officers in the service.

ruel Angelo is left in charge of Vienna when the Duke pretends to leave town.

Although unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1966, this novel delivers a full measure of action at sea.

1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession...

Sailing the frigate Lydia, Captain Hornblower has orders to track down and sink the Natividad, a Spanish ship with twice his fire power.

His Majesty's Ship Sutherland - of two decks and seventy-four guns - is a humdrum ship of the line.

Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad.

As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napol

As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.

April 1803.

The final three stories of Forester's early 19th century British naval hero.

Padua holds many suitors for the hand of fair Bianca, but Bianca may not be married until her spinster sister Kate is wed. Could any man be rash enough to take Kate on?