Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman - Softcover

Hornung, E. W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141439335 ISBN 13: 9780141439334

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

E. W. Hornung (1866-1921) created Raffles the gentleman burglar, hero of The Amateur Cracksman (1899) and Mr. Justice Raffles (1909) and wrote many other adventure stories published in magazines and in book form. He married Arthur Conan Doyle's sister Constance, traveled widely, and played cricket.

Review:

"One of the most remarkable triumphs of late nineteenth-century Romantic imagination"

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0141439335
• ISBN 13: 9780141439334
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Green Richard Lancelyn