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Literary Thoughts edition <br/> presents <br/> The African Queen by C. S. Forester <br/> <br/> <br/> – <br/> <br/> <br/> 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'. <br/> <br/> All books of the Literary Thoughts edition have been transscribed from original prints and edited for better reading experience. <br/> Please visit our homepage literarythoughts.com to see our other publications.