E. W. Hornung (1866–1921)
Autor(a) de Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
About the Author
Séries
Obras de E. W. Hornung
Raffles Collection (The collected stories of A. J. Raffles. Four books in one volume!) (2000) 17 cópias
The Complete Raffles Collection by E.W. Hornung (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2010) 15 cópias
THE COMPLETE RAFFLES SERIES - A Novel & 45 Short Stories: The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask, A Thief in the Night,… (2017) 5 cópias
Raffles 2 cópias
The Raffles Megapack: The Complete Tales of the Amateur Cracksman, plus Pastiches and Continuations 2 cópias
Le Premier Pas 2 cópias
British Mystery Multipacks Volume 7 – The Detectives: Father Brown, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, The Old Man in… (2015) 2 cópias
The rogue's march, a romance 2 cópias
El ladron nocturno (Ultimas aventuras de Raffles) 1 exemplar(es)
A Porta Secreta e o Retrato da Princesa 1 exemplar(es)
E.W. Hornung - The Amateur Cracksman: "In my emotion I had at first to struggle for every word" (2018) 1 exemplar(es)
COLLECTOR'S EDITION – COMPLETE RAFFLES SERIES & SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURES: 60 Novels & Stories in One… (2016) 1 exemplar(es)
Raffles - Um Ladrão de Luva Branca - ebook 1 exemplar(es)
The Thousandth Woman 1 exemplar(es)
Proezas de Raffles O Gatuno 1 exemplar(es)
Some Persons Unknown 1 exemplar(es)
Raffles Collection (The collected stories of A. J. Raffles. Four books in one volume!) 1 exemplar(es)
Raffles no ha muerto 1 exemplar(es)
Raffles el elegante (aventuras de un ladrón con frac) 1 exemplar(es)
THE YOUNG GUARD - World War I Poems & Author's War Memoirs: Consecration, Lord's Leave, Last Post, The Old Boys, Ruddy… 1 exemplar(es)
E.W. Hornung - Raffles: Further Adventures of The Amateur Cracksman: "I transcribe the thing as I see it before me, all… (2018) 1 exemplar(es)
Irralie's bushranger : a story of Australian adventure 1 exemplar(es)
Gentleman and Players 1 exemplar(es)
A Schoolmaster Abroad 1 exemplar(es)
Out of Paradise 1 exemplar(es)
Crime no Apartamento 113 e O Colar de Diamantes 1 exemplar(es)
At the Pistol's Point [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Novas Aventuras De Raffles 1 exemplar(es)
Raffles cambrioleur pour le bon motif 1 exemplar(es)
MYSTERY & CRIME COLLECTION (Illustrated): Dr. John Dollar's Mysteries & Adventures of A. J. Raffles, A Gentleman-Thief… (2016) 1 exemplar(es)
La Mascara Negra 1 exemplar(es)
Raffles: Series 2: BBC Radio 4 Extra dramatisation 1 exemplar(es)
Notes of a camp-follower on the Western front 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The World's Greatest Detective Stories: Intriguing Mysteries from the Greatest Writers of Crime Fiction (1978) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 (2019) — Contribuinte — 24 cópias
Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block (2007) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Classic Crime Collection - 10 Books RRP£70.91 (Lady Audley's Secret, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Raffles, Bleak… — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Raffles: Series 3: BBC Radio 4 full-cast [radio play] — Original author — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Hornung, Ernest William
- Data de nascimento
- 1866-06-07
- Data de falecimento
- 1921-03-22
- Local de enterro
- St.-Jean-de-Luz, France
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- St. Jean de Luz, France
- Locais de residência
- Mossgiel, New South Wales, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
London, England, UK
Posillipo, Naples, Italy
West Kensington, London England, UK
Arras, France (mostrar todas 8)
Amiens, France
Cologne, Germany - Educação
- Uppingham School
- Ocupação
- writer
poet
tutor
journalist - Relacionamentos
- Doyle, Arthur Conan (brother-in-law)
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 91
- Also by
- 33
- Membros
- 1,815
- Popularidade
- #14,161
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 55
- ISBNs
- 416
- Idiomas
- 11
Raffles and Bunny met at their public school and are very close friends. Their relationship carries a delicious homoerotic subtext. At first I thought this was my fevered imagination but Hornung knew Oscar Wilde and it seems that echoes of the Wilde/Bosie dalliance were also entirely intentional. Raffles and Bunny inhabit a Wildean world of paradox, moral relativism and aestheticism. Raffles is criminal as artist relishing the conception, plotting and realisation of his crimes. He steals partly to maintain his lifestyle but also for the sheer creative fun of it. And there’s a whiff of socialism in the privileged air: challenged by Bunny about his depredations Raffles avers that crime is wrong but the distribution of wealth is wrong as well.
He has a talent for cricket and plays for England - ‘a dangerous bat, a brilliant field, and perhaps the very finest slow bowler of his decade’. His fame on the field provides cover for his secret life of larceny as well as allowing Hornung to spin parallels between the game of cricket and the game of crime. George Orwell had a talent for writing perceptive essays and he wrote one about Raffles. Orwell points out that cricket is the perfect sport for Raffles as it is bound up, in England at least, with notions of style and fair play; the phrase ‘it’s not cricket’ to express ethical disapproval is not entirely obsolete even in the 21st century. By making his burglar a cricketer, observes Orwell, Hornung was ‘drawing the sharpest moral contrast that he was able to imagine’.
Raffles is an amateur cricketer, just as he is an amateur cracksman, and he regards with condescension the professionals in both occupations. Raffles, you understand, is a Gentleman and most emphatically not a Player. Which brings us to the essence of these delightfully absurd adventures: snobbery. By making his hero a toff Hornung catered to his readers fantasies about upper crust society but making his toff a criminal also enabled him to playfully subvert Victorian values. Raffles has it both ways with great panache and so does Hornung. These interrelated stories are awash with period charm, cleverly plotted and a rattling good read.… (mais)