E. W. Hornung

Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Daly, Nicholas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A. J. Raffles is a gentleman by day, thief by night, performing elaborate heists in late Victorian London amongst clubland bachelors, hansom cabs, champagne suppers, Australian heiresses, and South African diamond moguls.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 800
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192691316
• Artikelnr.: 72259160

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Daly is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College Dublin, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. His publications include the monographs Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle (1999), Literature, Technology and Modernity (2004), Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (2009), The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City: Paris, London, New York (2015), and Ruritania: A Cultural History (Oxford University Press, 2020). For Oxford World's Classics he has edited Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda, and Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of E. W. Hornung
THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN
The Ides of March
A Costume Piece
Gentlemen and Players
Le Premier Pas
Wilful Murder
Nine Points of the Law
The Return Match
The Gift of the Emperor
from The Black Mask
Narrator's Note
No Sinecure
A Jubilee Present
Explanatory Notes