E. W. Hornung (1866–1921)
Autore di Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
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Opere di E. W. Hornung
Raffles Collection (The collected stories of A. J. Raffles. Four books in one volume!) (2000) 17 copie
The Complete Raffles Collection by E.W. Hornung (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2010) 15 copie
THE COMPLETE RAFFLES SERIES - A Novel & 45 Short Stories: The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask, A Thief in the Night,… (2017) 5 copie
Raffles 2 copie
The Raffles Megapack: The Complete Tales of the Amateur Cracksman, plus Pastiches and Continuations 2 copie
British Mystery Multipacks Volume 7 – The Detectives: Father Brown, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, The Old Man in… (2015) 2 copie
The rogue's march, a romance 2 copie
Le Premier Pas 2 copie
Some Persons Unknown 1 copia
Raffles no ha muerto 1 copia
Proezas de Raffles O Gatuno 1 copia
Gentleman and Players 1 copia
The Thousandth Woman 1 copia
COLLECTOR'S EDITION – COMPLETE RAFFLES SERIES & SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURES: 60 Novels & Stories in One… (2016) 1 copia
Novas Aventuras De Raffles 1 copia
MYSTERY & CRIME COLLECTION (Illustrated): Dr. John Dollar's Mysteries & Adventures of A. J. Raffles, A Gentleman-Thief… (2016) 1 copia
La Mascara Negra 1 copia
Out of Paradise 1 copia
E.W. Hornung - Raffles: Further Adventures of The Amateur Cracksman: "I transcribe the thing as I see it before me, all… (2018) 1 copia
A Schoolmaster Abroad 1 copia
Opere correlate
The World's Greatest Detective Stories: Intriguing Mysteries from the Greatest Writers of Crime Fiction (1978) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 (2019) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block (2007) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Classic Crime Collection - 10 Books RRP£70.91 (Lady Audley's Secret, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Raffles, Bleak… — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Raffles: Series 3: BBC Radio 4 full-cast [radio play] — Original author — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Hornung, Ernest William
- Data di nascita
- 1866-06-07
- Data di morte
- 1921-03-22
- Luogo di sepoltura
- St.-Jean-de-Luz, France
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- St. Jean de Luz, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Mossgiel, New South Wales, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
London, England, UK
Posillipo, Naples, Italy
West Kensington, London England, UK
Arras, France (mostra tutto 8)
Amiens, France
Cologne, Germany - Istruzione
- Uppingham School
- Attività lavorative
- writer
poet
tutor
journalist - Relazioni
- Doyle, Arthur Conan (brother-in-law)
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- Opere
- 97
- Opere correlate
- 34
- Utenti
- 1,824
- Popolarità
- #14,101
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 55
- ISBN
- 417
- Lingue
- 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.… (altro)