The African Queen (C.S. Forester) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

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The African Queen
by C. S. Forester

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Writing under his pseudonym C. S. (Cecil Scott) Forester, Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (1899-1966) published his novel "The African Queen" in 1935, telling the story of Rose Sayer, a 33-year-old 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, she gets to know Charlie Allnutt, the mechanic and skipper of the steamboat 'African Queen'.

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Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist