num_pages: 640
description: These thrilling tales of high-seas adventure in the Napoleonic era, which Winston Churchill found "vastly entertaining" and Ernest Hemingway recommended to "every literate I know", are being eagerly embraced by a new generation of readers. Back Bay takes pleasure in reissuing these classic tales in handsome new trade paperback editions.— The Hornblower renaissance is in full sail with a nearly tenfold increase in sales: more than I5O, OOO Hornblower books sold in the first six months of 1999.— The A&amp;E television network's series of original movies based on Hornblower's adventures have been tremendously successful — praised by critics, enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of viewers, and winner of the Emmy Award for best miniseries.— Two new movies will be premiering in the spring on A&amp;E.— Readers and booksellers who admire Patrick O'Brian's novels delight in discovering this "new" series of nautical adventure stories.
language: English
title: The Indomitable Hornblower: Commodore Hornblower, Lord Hornblower & Hornblower in the West Indies
titlecomplete: The Indomitable Hornblower: Commodore Hornblower, Lord Hornblower & Hornblower in the West Indies
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 97
series: Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order
publisher: Little, Brown and Company