num_pages: 2
description: "Hornblower and the Widow McCool" is a short story by C. S. Forester, featuring his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis and another short story, "The Last Encounter". It is titled "Hornblower's Temptation" in certain US editions.The story is set very early in Hornblower's career, in 1799 or 1800, after Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, but before Lieutenant Hornblower."The Last Encounter" is a short story by C. S. Forester, the final chapter in the life of his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower.
language: English
title: Horatio Hornblower's Temptation & The Last Encounter
titlecomplete: Horatio Hornblower's Temptation & The Last Encounter
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 163
series: Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order
publisher:  NewStar Media