Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (624 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1406568643 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 154 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Byrle Moore said Another Hornung. As with the others I own very well written, great characterization enjoyable read !. Four Stars Not bad for amateur writer! Old English if you enjoy it.. "Raffles is No Holmes" according to Douglas S. Wood. Around 1900, E.W. Hornung's Raffles stories were hugely popular in England. Raffles was an English gentleman who was also an amateur safe-cracker and all-around burglar with the aid of his somewhat reluctant junior partner "Bunny".Raffles and Bunny have been compared to Holmes and Watson and for good reason. Hornung's sister was married to Arthur Conan Doyle and acknowledged his debt to his better-known in-law. Taking the role of Watson, Bunny authored the recollections of Raffles' criminal exploits (necessarily published after-the-fact, however). Whereas Bunny clung (somewhat unsuccessfully) to Victorian mor
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. J. The character of A. Although his Australian experience had been so short, it coloured most of his literary work from A Bride from the Bush (1890), to Old Offenders and a Few Old Scores (1923) which appeared after his death. Raffles, a "gentleman thief", first appeared in Cassell's Magazine in 1898 and the stories were later collected as The Amateur Cracksman (1899). He spent most of his life in England and France, but in 1884 left for Australia and stayed for two years. Ernest William Hornung (1866-1921) was an English author. He published the poems Bond and Free and Wooden Crosses in The Times. Justice Raffles (1909).. 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
"One of the most remarkable triumphs of late nineteenth-century Romantic imagination"
Hornung’s work is mostly coloured by his experiences of Australia. . English short-story writer and novelist, Hornung is famous for creating "Raffles", the wily yet likeable sleuth. He also wrote prominent war-verse