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Raffles believes that bowling provides good mental practice for "always looking for the weak spot", and Bunny, while watching Raffles play, notices how Raffles's skills as a cricketer overlap with his skills as a thief: "What I admired, and what I remember, was the combination of resource and cunning, of patience and precision, of head-work and ...
The Amateur Cracksman is an 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung.It was published in the UK by Methuen & Co., London, and in the US by Scribner's, New York. [1] Many later editions (T. Nelson & Sons, 1914; University of Nebraska Press, 1976; et al.) expand the title to Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman.
1904 Collier's illustration by J. C. Leyendecker. A. J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief – created by E. W. Hornung.Between 1898 and 1909, Hornung wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel about Raffles and his fictional chronicler, Harry "Bunny" Manders.
The stories feature Hornung's popular character A. J. Raffles. It was the third book in the series, and the final collection of short stories. In it, Raffles, a gentleman thief, commits a number of burglaries in late Victorian England. A full-length Raffles novel, Mr. Justice Raffles, would follow in 1909.
A. J. Raffles short stories (28 P) W. Works based on A. J. Raffles (15 P) Pages in category "A. J. Raffles" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
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"The Chest of Silver" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was published in January 1905 by Collier's Weekly in New York, [ 1 ] and in February 1905 by Pall Mall Magazine in London. [ 2 ]
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