Hornblower’s Temptation and the Last Encounter

Name: Hornblower’s Temptation and the Last Encounter
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by C. S. Forester

Book 12 in the Hornblower Saga series.

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This entry brings together two short stories that are also commonly published with Hornblower and the Crisis. “Hornblower’s Temptation”, also known as “Hornblower and the Widow McCool”, is set during Hornblower’s early lieutenant years, while “The Last Encounter” follows the elderly Hornblower’s meeting with Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in 1848.