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Book Synopsis The Amateur Cracksman by : Ernest William Hornung
Download or read book The Amateur Cracksman written by Ernest William Hornung and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur J. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Holmes - he is a ""gentleman thief"", living at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the ""Amateur Cracksman"", and often, at first, differentiates between himself and the ""professors"" - professional criminals from the lower classes. As Holmes has Dr. Watson to chronicle his adventures, Raffles has Harry ""Bunny"" Manders - a former schoolmate saved from disgrace and suicide by Raffles, whom Raffles persuaded to accompany him on a burglary. While Raffles often takes advantage of Manders' relative innocence, and sometimes treats him with a certain amount of contempt, he knows that Manders' bravery and loyalty are to be relied on utterly.
Book Synopsis Raffles: the Amateur Cracksman (A. J. Raffles, the Gentleman Thief #1) by : E. W. Hornung
Download or read book Raffles: the Amateur Cracksman (A. J. Raffles, the Gentleman Thief #1) written by E. W. Hornung and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentleman thief Raffles is daring, debonair, devilishly handsome-and a first-rate cricketer. In these eight stories, the master burglar indulges his passion for cricket and crime: stealing jewels from a country house, outwitting the law, pilfering from the nouveau riche, and, of course, bowling like a demon-all with the assistance of his plucky sidekick, Bunny. Encouraged by his brother-in-law, Arthur Conan Doyle, to write a series about a public school villain, and influenced by his own experiences at Uppingham, E. W. Hornung created a unique form of crime story, where, in stealing as in sport, it is playing the game that counts, and there is always honor among thieves.
Book Synopsis The Amateur Cracksman (A. J. Raffles, the Gentleman Thief #1) by : E. W. Hornung
Download or read book The Amateur Cracksman (A. J. Raffles, the Gentleman Thief #1) written by E. W. Hornung and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentleman thief Raffles is daring, debonair, devilishly handsome-and a first-rate cricketer. In these eight stories, the master burglar indulges his passion for cricket and crime: stealing jewels from a country house, outwitting the law, pilfering from the nouveau riche, and, of course, bowling like a demon-all with the assistance of his plucky sidekick, Bunny. Encouraged by his brother-in-law, Arthur Conan Doyle, to write a series about a public school villain, and influenced by his own experiences at Uppingham, E. W. Hornung created a unique form of crime story, where, in stealing as in sport, it is playing the game that counts, and there is always honor among thieves.
Book Synopsis RAFFLES, A GENTLEMAN-THIEF: 27 Adventure Tales in One Volume by : E. W. Hornung
Download or read book RAFFLES, A GENTLEMAN-THIEF: 27 Adventure Tales in One Volume written by E. W. Hornung and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. J. Raffles is an 'amateur cracksman' and a gentleman-thief who with his wit and ingenuity befools everyone to get what he wants. Raffles is an antihero. Although a thief, he never steals from his hosts, he helps old friends in trouble, and in a subsequent volume he may or may not die on the veldt during the Boer War. Additionally, the recognition of the problems of the distribution of wealth is a recurrent subtext throughout the stories. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Sherlock Holmes on which he is based – he is a "gentleman thief", living at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the "Amateur Cracksman", and often, at first, differentiates between himself and the "professors" – professional criminals from the lower classes. Content: The Amateur Cracksman The Ides of March A Costume Piece Gentlemen and Players Le Premier Pas Wilful Murder Nine Points of the Law The Return Match The Gift of the Emperor The Black Mask; or, Raffles: Further Adventures No Sinecure A Jubilee Present The Fate of Faustina The Last Laugh To Catch a Thief An Old Flame The Wrong House The Knees of the Gods A Thief in the Night Out of Paradise The Chest of Silver The Rest Cure The Criminologists' Club The Field of Philippi A Bad Night A Trap to Catch a Cracksman The Spoils of Sacrilege The Raffles Relics The Last Word Mr. Justice Raffles E. W. Hornung (1866–1921) was an English author and poet and also brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hornung is known for writing the A. J. Raffles series about a gentleman thief based on a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes series. Hornung dedicated his creation as a form of flattery to Doyle. It seems to be an impossible puzzle but it's easy to solve a Rubik' Cube using a few algorithms.
Book Synopsis A. J. Raffles the Gentleman Thief Series by : E. W. Hornung
Download or read book A. J. Raffles the Gentleman Thief Series written by E. W. Hornung and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. J. Raffles The Gentleman Thief Series contains 26 short stories and one full length novel as follows: The Amateur Cracksman (8 short stories) The Black Mask (8 Short Stories) A Thief in the Night (10 short stories) Mr. Justice Raffles (A Novel) These crime and adventure stories were written by E. W. Hornung. The story centers around A. J. Raffles, who is a cricketer and gentleman thief in late Victoria London. The character of Raffles has been adapted into Raffles television series. Ernest William Hornung (1866 - 1921),known professionally as E. W. Hornung, was a journalist, poet and English writer. His best known writing was the A. J. Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late 19th century London. Born on 7 June 1866 in Middlesbrough, England, he was the youngest son of John Peter Hornung.He married Constance ("Connie") Aimée Monica Doyle (1868-1924), the sister of his friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on 27 September 1893.
Book Synopsis A. J. Raffles, A Gentleman-Thief: 27 Crime Tales in One Volume by : E. W. Hornung
Download or read book A. J. Raffles, A Gentleman-Thief: 27 Crime Tales in One Volume written by E. W. Hornung and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "A. J. Raffles, A Gentleman-Thief: 27 Crime Tales in One Volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A. J. Raffles is an 'amateur cracksman' and a gentleman-thief who with his wit and ingenuity befools everyone to get what he wants. Raffles is an antihero. Although a thief, he never steals from his hosts, he helps old friends in trouble, and in a subsequent volume he may or may not die on the veldt during the Boer War. Additionally, the recognition of the problems of the distribution of wealth is a recurrent subtext throughout the stories. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Sherlock Holmes on which he is based – he is a "gentleman thief", living at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the "Amateur Cracksman", and often, at first, differentiates between himself and the "professors" – professional criminals from the lower classes. Content: The Amateur Cracksman The Ides of March A Costume Piece Gentlemen and Players Le Premier Pas Wilful Murder Nine Points of the Law The Return Match The Gift of the Emperor The Black Mask; or, Raffles: Further Adventures No Sinecure A Jubilee Present The Fate of Faustina The Last Laugh To Catch a Thief An Old Flame The Wrong House The Knees of the Gods A Thief in the Night Out of Paradise The Chest of Silver The Rest Cure The Criminologists' Club The Field of Philippi A Bad Night A Trap to Catch a Cracksman The Spoils of Sacrilege The Raffles Relics The Last Word Mr. Justice Raffles E. W. Hornung (1866–1921) was an English author and poet and also brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hornung is known for writing the A. J. Raffles series about a gentleman thief based on a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes series. Hornung dedicated his creation as a form of flattery to Doyle.
Download or read book Raffles written by Ernest William Hornung and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mr. Justice Raffles by : Ernest William Hornung
Download or read book Mr. Justice Raffles written by Ernest William Hornung and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by : E. W. Hornung
Download or read book Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman written by E. W. Hornung and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophisticated mayhem from a master of crime fiction Since his friend and partner in crime, A. J. Raffles, jumped into the Mediterranean, Bunny Manders has scraped along as best he can. At Raffles’s side, he was witness to, and participant in, the most ingenious burglaries the underworld had ever seen. Without him, Bunny is a struggling ex-convict, so down on his luck that he answers an ad seeking a male nurse and companion for a notoriously rude invalid. But when he lights the old man’s Sullivan cigarette and sees a perfect smoke ring float into the air, Bunny cries out in delight. Raffles is back, and ready for adventure. In the second installment in E. W. Hornung’s crackerjack crime series, England’s greatest jewel thief is up to all of his old tricks and many ingenious new ones—none so spectacular as turning Queen Victoria herself into an accomplice. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Book Synopsis Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by : E. W. Hornung
Download or read book Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman written by E. W. Hornung and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman" by E. W. Hornung When the reputations of A. J. Raffles and his companion Bunny Manders are ruined, Raffles is assumed to have drowned in the Mediterranean, and Bunny has faced eighteen months in prison and is struggling to get back on his feet. The book contains the tales No Sinecure, A Jubilee Present, The Fate of Faustina, The Last Laugh, To Catch a Thief, An Old Flame, The Wrong House, and The Knees of the Gods which follow their remarkable reunion, and their joint return to crime, though as hardened criminals rather than respectable gentlemen. The stories are in chronological order, yet each is mostly independent and can be read separately.
Book Synopsis A Thief in the Night by : Ernest William Hornung
Download or read book A Thief in the Night written by Ernest William Hornung and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Amateur Cracksman by : Ernest William Hornung
Download or read book The Amateur Cracksman written by Ernest William Hornung and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amateur Cracksman was the original short story collection by E. W. Hornung featuring his most famous character, A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief in late Victorian Great Britain. It was first published in 1899. The book was very well received and spawned three follow-ups: two more short story collections, The Black Mask (1901) and A Thief in the Night (1904), as well as a full-length novel, Mr. Justice Raffles in 1909.[1]
Download or read book Raffles written by Ernest William Hornung and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The second collection of short stories about the gentleman thief, A.J. Raffles, in Victorian London"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Raffles written by E. W. Hornung and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The character of A. J. Raffles, a "gentleman thief," first appeared in Cassell's Magazine in 1898 and the stories were later collected as The Amateur Cracksman (1899). After Hornung spent time in the trenches with the troops in France, he published Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front in 1919, a detailed account of his time there. His other works include: Dead Men Tell No Tales (1899), The Black Mask (1901), No Hero (1903), A Thief in the Night: A Book of Raffles' Adventures (1905) and Mr. Justice Raffles (1909).
Book Synopsis The Complete Raffles by : E.w. Hornung
Download or read book The Complete Raffles written by E.w. Hornung and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-16 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in The Strand Magazine, where he was second in popularity only to the legendary Sherlock Holmes, these stories introduced the world to antihero gentleman cricketer and thief, A.J. Raffles, along with his faithful cohort, Bunny Manders. This collection includes all of author E.W. Hornung's Raffles adventures. Contains the short story collections: The Amateur Cracksman The Black Mask The Thief in the Night And the novel Mr Justice Raffles
Book Synopsis The Amateur Cracksman Illustrated by : Ernest William Hornung
Download or read book The Amateur Cracksman Illustrated written by Ernest William Hornung and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amateur Cracksman is an 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung. It was published in the UK by Methuen & Co., London, and in the US by Scribner's, New York.[1]It was the original short story collection by Hornung featuring his most famous character, A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief in late Victorian Great Britain. The book was very well received and spawned three follow-ups: two more short story collections, The Black Mask (1901) and A Thief in the Night (1904), as well as a full-length novel, Mr. Justice Raffles in 1909.
Download or read book Raffles written by Ernest William Hornung and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Mask is a 1901 short story collection by E. W. Hornung. It was published in the UK by Grant Richards, London, and in the US by Scribner's, New York under the title Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman.[1] It is the second collection of stories in Hornung's series concerning A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief in late Victorian London.Several of the stories were adapted for the 1977 Raffles television series.
