C. S. Forester

Person · Open Library

Born

27 Aug 1899

Died

2 Apr 1966

Works

562

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Film & TV

Writing · Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt [now Egypt]

Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 — 2 April 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and…

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1899

Active to

1966

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

35

Total plays

873

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. DL_POLY_2.0: A general-purpose parallel molecular dynamics simulation package

   · 1996 · cited 2,109x

2. Spatial memory and animal movement

   · 2013 · cited 562x

3. Comparing methods for detecting multilocus adaptation with multivariate genotype–environment associations

   · 2018 · cited 528x

4. Preterm neonatal morbidity and mortality by gestational age: a contemporary cohort

   · 2016 · cited 473x

5. Dynamic patterns and ecological impacts of declining ocean pH in a high-resolution multi-year dataset

   · 2008 · cited 449x

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Quotes

• “When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”
• “"I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower." That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.”
• “The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.”

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