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| Original Title: | The Amateur Cracksman |
| ISBN: | 0141439335 (ISBN13: 9780141439334) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | A.J. Raffles, The Gentleman Thief #1 |
| Characters: | A.J. Raffles, Bunny Manders |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
E.W. Hornung
Paperback | Pages: 240 pages Rating: 3.61 | 2078 Users | 225 Reviews
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| Title | : | Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (A.J. Raffles, The Gentleman Thief #1) |
| Author | : | E.W. Hornung |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 240 pages |
| Published | : | August 26th 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published 1898) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Mystery. Short Stories. Crime |
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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.
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Ratings: 3.61 From 2078 Users | 225 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (A.J. Raffles, The Gentleman Thief #1)
Raffles is such an appealing character that it is a wonder that no other writer has quite captured his spirit. He is one of a class of well-educated young nineteenth-century swells, fit for earning no living, having apparently inherited no fortune, yet expected to live like gentlemen of means. In an earlier age, younger sons or the sons of impecunious gentlemen would have ridden off to the Crusades, or crept into poor livings as clergymen. By the Victorian age, growing numbers of such boys had"this conversation is so gay i had to take off my glasses" -me, reading the gift of the emperori'll share with you what my dear friend ernest told me that convinced me to read this: if you liked the gay crime-solving boyfriends, sherlock holmes and john watson, i'd love to suggest to you, two gay crime-committing boyfriends, aj raffles and bunny manders. huge fun to read.i highly recommend the annotated version, available for free here (the stories are in public domain):
I certainly liked the idea portrayed by Horning (Raffles 'The Gentleman Thief'), however for me there was never enough content, intrigue or character building of the protagonists within each internal affair. This was the first story from an Omnibus 'The Collected Raffles'. Hopefully, the next couple stories will deliver more.
Where to start? These stores are a sort of reverse Sherlock Holmes. The protagonist, a thief, takes the man who chronicles his adventures with him on his capers, and these stories are set in roughly the same time period and in mostly similar places. Whereas, however, Doyle wrote with wonderful flare and style, E. W. Hornung does not. The lines are flat and unengaging. Raffles is no Holmes. Though both share a penchant for keeping their friend in the dark in order to surprise the reader, his
E.W. Hornung was Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law, and although he is not nearly as well known as that luminary, he was quite popular in late Victorian and Edwardian times. Raffles is his most successful book, a collection of tales of a gentleman thief. The title character is dashing and debonair, not to mention a first-class cricket player. (Think David Niven as the Pink Panther and you've got an idea.) He steals jewels from foppish rich folk and outwits the slow-on-the-uptake law at every
the idea of raffles, the gentleman thief, obverse of the legendary sherlock holmes, gentleman detective (the creation of hornung's esteemed brother-in-law arthur conan doyle), thrills me. and i can't say i don't normally adore the idea of working outside the law to balance the scales of justice -- i watch timothy hutton's modern-day robin hood crew on leverage as often as possible. there is no doubt that raffles is in some ways the progenitor of this type of character but in reading the book i
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