Raffles The Amateur Cracksman

Author : E. W. Hornung
Publisher : Namaskar Book
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung Pdf

Indulge in the witty exploits of a gentleman thief as he maneuvers through a world of crime, blending charm and mischief in equal measure. The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung: Step into the thrilling world of crime and adventure with the esteemed author E. W. Hornung in The Amateur Cracksman. This classic collection of tales introduces readers to the charismatic A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief with a penchant for intrigue and a code of honor that adds layers of complexity to his criminal exploits. Why This Book? The Amateur Cracksman invites readers to follow the daring escapades of A. J. Raffles, a character who defies traditional notions of crime and justice. E. W. Hornung's skillful storytelling and the moral ambiguity of Raffles create a narrative that captivates audiences with its blend of suspense, wit, and unexpected twists. E. W. Hornung, a master of crime fiction, leaves an indelible mark with The Amateur Cracksman. Immerse yourself in the world of gentlemanly crime as Hornung weaves tales that challenge perceptions and introduce readers to a character whose criminal exploits are as intriguing as they are morally complex.

Author : E. W. Hornung
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547356325

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The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Amateur Cracksman" by E. W. Hornung. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Ernest William Hornung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Adventure stories, English
ISBN : 1853260940

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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by Ernest William Hornung Pdf

Author : E. W. Hornung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1164815733

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Raffles by E. W. Hornung Pdf

Author : E W Hornung
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798556099289

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Raffles The Amateur Cracksman Annotated by E W Hornung Pdf

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. 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.

Author : Ernest William Hornung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798552335114

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Raffles The Amateur Cracksman Annotated by Ernest William Hornung Pdf

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. 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.

Author : E W Hornung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798685834652

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Raffles The Amateur Cracksman Annotated by E W Hornung Pdf

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. 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.

Author : Ernest William Hornung,Eugene Wiley Presbrey,Henry Jewett,Warwick Buckland,Barry Whitcomb,Henry Jewett Repertory Company,Copley Theatre (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 191?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:15093182

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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by Ernest William Hornung,Eugene Wiley Presbrey,Henry Jewett,Warwick Buckland,Barry Whitcomb,Henry Jewett Repertory Company,Copley Theatre (Boston, Mass.) Pdf

Author : E. W. Hornung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1846774357

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The Complete Raffles by E. W. Hornung Pdf

These are E. W. Hornung's famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler 'Bunny'. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too ordinary for Raffles and that sets him on a series of adventures that have long been treasured as a real antidote to the 'white knights' who are the usual heroes of the crime fiction of this period. This book includes the first two collections of Raffles-the Gentleman Cracksman-stories, The Amateur Cracksman & The Black Mask-comprising some 16 stories in all. Included are 'The Ides of March, ' 'Nine Points of the Law, ' 'The Fate of Faustina' and many other favourites. Leonaur is bringing the entire Raffles adventures together in two matching volumes which are available in softcover and hardcover with dust jacket-making them perfect for collector

Author : Ernest William Hornung
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465548351

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Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by Ernest William Hornung Pdf

Author : E. W. Hornung
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781776581634

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Raffles by E. W. Hornung Pdf

E. W. Hornung struck literary gold with his unforgettable creation A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief whose capers and heists are carried out according to a strict (though skewed) moral code and with enviable aplomb. This delightful second collection of stories about Raffles and his friend Bunny expands on the formula Hornung established in the first book, following the pair on adventures beyond their criminal endeavors.

Author : Ernest William Hornung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798677198823

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Raffles The Black Mask by Ernest William Hornung Pdf

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.

Author : E. W. Hornung
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544044348

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Raffles by E. W. Hornung Pdf

Ernest William Hornung (professionally known as E. W. Hornung; 1866-1921), was an English poet and writer. From a Hungarian background, Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; as a result of poor health he left the school in December 1883 to travel to Sydney, where he stayed for two years. He returned in early 1886 when his father was dying and bankrupt, and began writing professionally shortly afterwards. Hornung had his first work published in 1887-the short story "Stroke of Five" in Belgravia magazine. His first novel, A Bride from the Bush, was published in 1890, and Hornung used his Australian experiences as a backdrop to the story. He went on to use Australia as a setting or plot element in a further seven novels and two collections of short stories. In 1899 The Amateur Cracksman was published, a series of short stories that introduced A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief in late-Victorian Britain. Hornung dedicated the book to his friend, the writer Arthur Conan Doyle: "To A.C.D. This form of flattery," and the narrative form is similar to Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, with Raffles and his partner Bunny Manders being the criminal counterparts to Holmes and Dr. Watson. Two further short story collections and a novel followed, as did a play, Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman, first shown at the Princess Theatre, New York in 1903. It is for the character of Raffles that Hornung is best remembered. In 1893 Hornung married Constance Doyle (1868-1924), the sister of Arthur Conan Doyle and in 1895 their son, Arthur Oscar, was born.[1] Oscar was killed at the Second Battle of Ypres in July 1915. It marked the end of Hornung's work in fiction, and after that point he published three works of poetry-two of which were first published in The Times-and two volumes of non-fiction: a biography of his son and an account of his time working at the front line as ambulance driver, rest-station attendant and for the YMCA. Hornung's fragile constitution was further weakened by the stress of his war work. To aid his recuperation, he and his wife visited the South of France in 1921. He fell ill from influenza on the journey, and died on 22 March 1922, aged 54.

Author : E. W. Hornung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973816989

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Raffles: the Amateur Cracksman - Classic Book by E. W. Hornung Pdf

The cracking debut of A. J. Raffles, proper English gentleman and jewel thief extraordinaire Sometimes the greatest of partnerships are born in the direst of moments. For Bunny Manders and A. J. Raffles, such a moment comes when a bad night at the baccarat tables threatens to end in suicide. Hundreds of pounds in the red, Bunny grows so desperate that he asks Raffles, a former classmate who captained their public school's cricket team, for help. When Raffles hesitates, Bunny pulls a gun out of his coat pocket and puts it to his head. "I never dreamt you had such stuff in you, Bunny!" says Raffles, a gleam in his eye. A few hours later, he and his old school chum break into a jeweler's shop and steal thousands of pounds' worth of diamonds and gemstones. Disaster averted, adventures begun. In these thrilling stories, E. W. Hornung introduced the world to a duo as gifted at burglary as Sherlock Holmes and Watson are at detection. Full of sophisticated banter, hair-raising close calls, and nefarious schemes, Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman is a masterwork of crime fiction and irrefutable proof that there truly is honor among thieves. This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Author : E. W. Hornung
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974214524

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Raffles by E. W. Hornung Pdf

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).