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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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