C. S. Forester published the first of the Horatio Hornblower books that I read,⁠[1] Lieutenant Hornblower, in 1952, the year that my family and I arrived in the United States (the first book of the saga Forester wrote, however—Beat to Quarters—came out in 1939). It is the first book I read in English, and it […]

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