He works in mysterious ways.

Still serving aboard the HMS Indefatigable, Horatio Hornblower has been promoted to acting Lieutenant. Neutral Spain has concluded a peace treaty with France and the British now have another enemy to ...

LIEUTENANT HORNBLOWER (306 pp.)—C. S. Forester—Little, Brown ($3.50). Foul was the night, and black the situation. Four hundred desperate Spaniards, crammed captive in the hold, had rushed in dead of ...

CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER—C. S. Forester—Little, Brown ($2.75). It was bargain day this week for adventure-story readers. For the price of one big book, they could get three. Captain Horatio ...

Before taking the Renown back to Jamaica for their court martial on charges of mutiny, Hornblower, Kennedy, and Bush convince an insecure and indecisive Lt. Buckland, now acting captain, that it would ...

Horatio Hornblower, that smashing swashbuckler of the high seas, is all grown up and looking good. In his last TV sighting -- that was 1999 on A&E -- young Horatio was a green but gallant midshipman ...

After 93 years on this planet — and ten minutes off it when he became the oldest human to head into outer space on the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket — William Shatner retains the wide-eyed wonder and ...

Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown.

I just reread Victory of Eagles, one of my favorite books in Naomi Novik's excellent nine-book Temeraire series, and thought I'd briefly blog again about how much I like them. The books are set in ...

An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past Earlier this month, for its annual holiday issue, Book World asked several literary ...