Commodore
The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

Horatio Hornblower is recouping in the pastoral English countryside, enjoying - or trying to enjoy - his forced time on shore with his wife and child. He finds life away from the sea dull and grinding. He has to answer to his wife, convention and his neighbors. A poor comparison with life as lord an......more

5* 2024 reread. Definitely one of the better Horatio Hornblower books, this has HH knocking around the Baltic, confusing the French, hobnobbing with the Tsar and fooling about with countesses. Forester's simple but elegant prose skips you from adventure to adventure so convincingly you almost never wo......more

This story marks a major turning point for Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower, in more ways than one can count. He is no longer young, no longer poor, no longer trapped in a bad marriage. For the first time, he is based in the chill waters of the Baltic Sea. And for the first time, he is truly calling a......more

I felt like reading a sea story and you can't go wrong with Hornblower. This is one of the later books in the series. Horatio Hornblower is older and more mature--and the commodore of a squadron. It's 1812 and Napoleon dominates on land in Europe while the Royal Navy rules the waves ( the young Ame......more

Having finally advanced beyond the finical problems that have dogged him from his days as a midshipman. Now he's married Lady Barbra and moved on now as a well known hero of the British nation. I like these books and recommend you start this journey from it's beginning with Hornblower as a young mids......more