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Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a French fortress. Within days he and his first lieutenant, Bush, who was crippled in the last fight, are to be taken to Paris to be tried on trumped-up charges of violating the laws of war, and most probably executed as part of Napoleon's attempt to rally the warweary empire behind him. Even if Hornblower escapes this fate and somehow finds his way back to England, he will face court-martial for his surrender of a British ship. As fears for his life and his reputation compete in his mind with worries about his pregnant wife and his possibly widowed lover, the indomitable captain imetierntly awaits the chance to make his next move.… (plus d'informations)
This is the second half of the adventure begun in C.S. Forester's previous novel about British sea captain Horatio Hornblower, "A Ship of the Line." While not quite as spellbinding as that one, it's still a splendid book. I'm more than halfway through the Hornblowers, and I don't want them to end. This one spends more time on land than at sea, detailing Hornblower's adventures after being captured by the French at the end of the previous book. Hornblower is a wonderful character, his self-doubts and painful stoicism giving color and richness to what would have been a pretty wonderful character anyway. Highly recommended, like all the Hornblower novels. ( )
I read this right after Ship of the Line because that one ends on a cliffhanger. Holy cow, does this wrap things up! This is one book in the series where character development took front & center, witha windfall of plot developments at the end. I wish A&E had got this far! ( )
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Captain Hornblower was walking up and down along that sector of the ramparts of Rosas, delimited by two sentries with loaded muskets, which the commandant had granted to him for exercise.
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He remembered how Marie had said he was a man whom women loved easily, and he felt uncomfortable at being reminded of her.
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Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a French fortress. Within days he and his first lieutenant, Bush, who was crippled in the last fight, are to be taken to Paris to be tried on trumped-up charges of violating the laws of war, and most probably executed as part of Napoleon's attempt to rally the warweary empire behind him. Even if Hornblower escapes this fate and somehow finds his way back to England, he will face court-martial for his surrender of a British ship. As fears for his life and his reputation compete in his mind with worries about his pregnant wife and his possibly widowed lover, the indomitable captain imetierntly awaits the chance to make his next move.
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Il y a la mer dont on sait depuis Joseph Conrad qu'elle est une métaphore parfaite de l'âme humaine et de ses combats.Il y a les navires, ces vaisseaux de ligne devenus légendes, cathédrales éphémères de planches et de voiles, à compter parmi les plus belles créations de l'esprit humain. Cathédrales de bois, mais aussi bagnes flottants. Il y a Horatio Hornblower, anti-héros, timide et maladroit, dépourvu de tout instinct guerrier, mais que son intelligence, sa volonté, son obstination conduisent à l'héroïsme dans les combats cruciaux.L'ensemble constitue un des plus fabuleux romans d'aventures maritimes jamais écrits, une suite en dix livres rassemblés par Omnibus en deux volumes et présentés pour la première fois selon la chronologie du récit. Pour un exceptionnel bonheur de lecture. Ecoutez, l'histoire commence. Il ne paie pas de mine le gringalet qui en cette année 1793 se hisse péniblement à bord du Justimian, il ferait même un peu pitié dans ses habits trop grands détrempés par la pluie.Et les brutes aguerries du gaillard d'avant ne s'y trompent pas, qui l'accueillent par un silence pesant traversé de sarcasmes : un aspirant de marine en proie au mal de mer !.
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