{"first_publish_date": "November 1, 2007", "key": "/works/OL1937680W", "title": "Hornblower and the \"Hotspur\"", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL232499A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [2000803, 1480318, 188795, 188814, 93290, 2063039, 7052820, 7521222, 12835754, 14982158, 14922545], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"REPEAT AFTER ME,\" said the person."}, "subjects": ["Fiction, action & adventure", "Great britain, fiction", "Hornblower, horatio (fictitious character), fiction", "Peninsular war, 1807-1814, fiction", "Fiction, historical, general", "Literature", "Open Library Staff Picks", "Fiction in English", "Horatio Hornblower (Fictitious character)", "Fiction", "Naval History", "Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815", "Fiction, historical", "English literature", "Guerres napol\u00e9oniennes, 1800-1815", "Romans, nouvelles", "Histoire navale"], "subject_places": ["Great Britain", "Grande-Bretagne"], "subject_times": ["19th century", "19e si\u00e8cle"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army just across the Channel. Horatio Hornblower -- who, at age twenty-seven, has already distinguished himself as one of the most daring and resourceful officers in the Royal Navy -- commands the three-masted Hotspur on a dangerous reconnaissance mission that evolves, as war breaks out, into a series of spectacular confrontations. All the while, the introspective young commander struggles to understand his new bride and mother-in-law, his officers and crew, and his own \"accursed and unhappy temperament\" -- matters that trouble him more, perhaps, than any of Bonaparte's cannonballs. - Back cover."}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:35:56.165683"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-02-09T22:31:09.036653"}}