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He is best known for the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by Lawson, both full page and within. The story of a boy whose life becomes exciting when he adopts a dragon he then adopts two more. It remains one of Forester's rarest titles. Forester collected the stories in manuscript form and Michael Joseph published it. By the time Kathleen returned home and everything returned to normal, there were a number of Poo-Poo stories, and 3 dragons. If George stopped eating, Forester stopped talking mid-sentence. Forester made up the stories to tell during dinnertime, but would only tell them if George would eat. The younger of the two, 8 year old George, went on a hunger strike he refused to eat. Forester came up with the premise for the book while he was at home in the Berkeley hills, minding his two boys while his wife Kathleen was away. This book was conceived and published in 1942, before the war impacted on book production. Smith, Cecil Louis Troughton Writing under the pseudonym: Forester, C.
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