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Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (A.J. Raffles, The Gentleman Thief #1)

E.W. Hornung

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

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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	:	Anniversary 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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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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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

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I love Raffles and Bunny playing the anti-Holmes duo, and the weird adventures they get up to. I'd love it more, though, if they did more actual burglary and less "we almost did a burglary but for one reason or another we did not actually commit the burglary." Feels like Hornung is hedging bc of Victorian morality and damn it, I just want some thieves doing thief stuff! Give me the Lupin vibes!

I read the first story of the book, and was around half way through the second before I decided to give up - this book is irritatingly dull. Though the stories are short, Hornung still manages to pack them with hyperbole and filler; in fact the content of the plot could easily fit on one page. The rest of each story (the first two, at least) is filled with the narrator's constant surprise and shock at the less-than-shocking protagonist, Raffles. The exclamation marks, generously decorating each

This is an adventure. This is nonsense. This is (mainly) fun. It is limited and absurd. It is more a view of how people liked to imagine their society (as a place where people like this might exist) than it is a book that gives a view of a society as it once was.This edition has a wealth of footnotes, most of which seem right and useful (and some of which are one or the other and some, I think, neither).Definitely worth a look. Weak ending but overall very much a good read.

the idea of raffles, the gentleman thief, obverse of the legendary sherlock holmes, gentleman detective (the creation of hornung's esteemed brother-in-law arthur conan doyle), thrills me. and i can't say i don't normally adore the idea of working outside the law to balance the scales of justice -- i watch timothy hutton's modern-day robin hood crew on leverage as often as possible. there is no doubt that raffles is in some ways the progenitor of this type of character but in reading the book i

Did not finish.A. J. Raffles must be just about THE most annoying character ever created. Narcisistic, and borderline psychopathic. And Bunny is a snivelling little wimp.Managed two and a half stories before throwing in the towel.

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, his

Raffles and Bunny are two young gentlemen with large debts and no desire to work for a living. They turn to crime, specifically burglary, to continue to live their lives of idle luxury. The stories are clearly inspired by and partially parodies of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Raffles is cold, logical, and nigh-superhuman. Bunny is dim enough that the reader gets the pleasure of knowing more than he does and sniggering at all that he misses. It's got some casual racism typical of its time, and no