Be Specific About Books During Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (A.J. Raffles, The Gentleman Thief #1)
| 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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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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| Title | : | Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (A.J. Raffles, The Gentleman Thief #1) |
| Author | : | E.W. Hornung |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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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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, hisA.J. Raffles is a gentleman thief and first class amateur cricket player. With the narrator, his sidekick known as Bunny, he uses his position in society to liberate valuables from their owners. Hornung was Arthur Conan Doyle's brother-in-law. The book is dedicated to Conan Doyle and these stories certainly owe something to him, although Raffles is on the other side of the law to Holmes. The stories are fun and Raffles is an engaging character. From time to time he has to justify his dubious
Always had a soft spot for the various gentlemen adventurers/detectives/thieves of the late 1800's/early nineteen hundreds.They were fun, living in a world of leisure, adventure, wealth and charming women that is no more realistic than Ian Flemming's England or pulp novels set in the old west.The two big gentlemen thieves of the time were Raffles and Lupin.While Lupin was the better of the two, more suave and tricky, Raffles had a reliable sidekick, a more low key style and was steeped in
bunny is definitely in love with raffles.
January 2011Good news, Americans! You don't have to know anything about cricket to read and enjoy this!Meet A. J. Raffles: gentleman, independent bachelor, London man-about-town, champion cricketeer--er, cricketman--I mean, player-of-cricket--and...thief? Surely not! Surely so: how else could this gentleman of leisure afford to play poor man's baseball--I mean, cricket, sorry--whenever he likes? One must make money somehow, God wot, and Raffles' way is only slightly more dishonest than others.
1899. That's the only excuse. There are hints of a really good writer, but Rsffles the gentleman their comes across as a harmless sociopath, and the narrator is clearly in an abusive relationship with him.
Well enough written but absolutely mind-numbing. Raffles is a dick and Bunny is caught in his headlights.Written as an anti-hero with his brother-in-law's real hero in sight (Holmes), I can only suggest he failed miserably to redress the balance.
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