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Forester Cecil Scott
(1899—1966)
«The Gun»

Cecil Scott Forester was born on 27th August, 1899 in Cairo, Egypt. He was educated in England at Alleyn's School and Dulwich College, at neither of which, he said, he made any particular impression except as an extremely naughty boy. He left Dulwich College and attempted to take up medicine but soon found that his real vocation was storytelling and writing. Always an enthusiastic reader as a child (he used to devour complete encyclopedias) he used his extensive and eclectic knowledge to make his stories very readable and popular. He is possibly most famous for the Hornblower series of novels which intersperse tales of great human understanding with a high level of technical expertise - even though he was never in the navy.

«The Gun» is a novel by C.S. Forester about an imaginary incident in the Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon Bonaparte. It was made into a movie in 1957, under the title The Pride and the Passion.

Guinea, 1998, «The Pride And The Passion»