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C. S. Forester and The Age of Sail
Collecting C. S. Forester, Part One:
The African Queen and All That
Cecil Smith’s earliest childhood memory was of the passenger ship his family was taking from Egypt to England running aground in the bay at Malaga. The infant writer stored memories of this incident and drew on them when he became a novelist. We look at the early career of this great storyteller.
C. S. Forester: An Annotated Checklist
of First Editions, 1924-1936
rom his first book, A Pawn Among Kings, to his early masterpieces The African Queen and The General, all the Forester firsts are challenging for a collector. Some may be impossible.
C. S. Forester’s Films
Although Forester wrote plays, he was no screenwriter. But several of his stories were made into movies, among them some of the most important films of the Golden Age of Sound.
Lord Nelson and His Navy
The naval nonfiction subgenre remains surprisingly vital today. No fewer than four important biographies of Nelson were published in the last two years. We look at a selection of books about England’s most famous naval hero and the ships of his era.
Books into Film
The African Queen, a novel by C. S. Forester, a film by John Huston
Ten Years Ago
February 1994 Checklist Update: Mario Vargas Llosa