F. Scott Fitzgerald's pseudo- autobiographical first novel. It describes life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned "lost generation" of post World War 1 America.
April 1803, and the Peace of Amiens is failing as Horatio Hornblower takes a three-master on a vital reconnaissance mission... On the day of his marriage to Maria, Hornblower is ordered to take the Hotspur and head for Brest - war is coming and Napoleon will not catch His Majesty's navy with its britches round its ankles. With thoughts of his new life as a husband intruding on his duties, Hornblower must prove himself...