литературоведение

&quot;The Peacemaker" is a novel written in 1934 by Cecil Scott «C. S.» Forester (1899-1966), telling the story of a shabby schoolteacher named Edward Pethwick, who lives in London with his repulsive, drunken wife. The only ray of hope in his life are experiments with a secret invention – until the pacifist daughter of his headmaster&apos;s brings sex and idealism into his life. Is his re-awakened intellect responsible for the chaos that now reigns throughout London and should spread confusion until there was total disarmament?

русская классика

The Peacemaker

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966) wrote his novel «The African Queen» in 1935, using the pseudonym C. S. (Cecil Scott) Forester. «The African Queen» tells the story of an Englishwoman, who is the companion and housekeeper of her brother Samuel, an Anglican missionary in German-colonized Tanganyika (present-day Tanzania). When World War I begins and her brother dies, she gets to know the mechanic and skipper of the steamboat &apos;African Queen&apos;, Charlie Allnutt, and after a while, falls in love with him.

исторические приключения

The African Queen

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966) wrote his novel «The Captain from Connecticut» in 1941, using the pseudonym C. S. (Cecil Scott) Forester. The story of «The Captain from Connecticut» is set at the tail end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812, telling the adventures of Captain Josiah Peabody, who, in command of the USS Delaware, escapes the British Blockade out of New York City in the winter of 1813-1814 and sails south to destroy British commerce in the Caribbean.

Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester