Maurice Leblanc

The Extraordinary Adventures Of Arsene Lupin (eBook, ePUB)

Gentleman Burglar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar is the first collection of stories by Maurice Leblanc recounting the adventures of Arsène Lupin, containing the first eight stories depicting the character, each was first published in the French magazine Je sais tout following the first on 15 July 1905. The seventh features fictional English detective Sherlock Holmes.The collection contains the following stories:"The Arrest of Arsène Lupin""Arsène Lupin in Prison""The Escape of Arsène Lupin""The Queen's Necklace""Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late""The Black Pearl""Seven of Hearts"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Classic Crime
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788827568118
• Artikelnr.: 50996222

Autorenporträt

Maurice Le Blanc, a fictitious gentleman thief and detective who is sometimes compared to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, was created by Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (11 December 1864 - 6 November 1941), a French novelist and short story writer. Leblanc may have also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique (1901), which contains a gentleman thief by the name of Arthur Lebeau, and seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules (1902), whose primary character is a gentleman thief. By 1907, Leblanc had advanced to penning full-length Lupin novels, and thanks to favorable reviews and strong sales, he practically devoted the remainder of his career to producing Lupin tales. Leblanc also seems to have disliked Lupin's popularity, much like Conan Doyle, who frequently felt embarrassed or constrained by the success of Sherlock Holmes and seemed to regard his success in the field of crime fiction as a detraction from his more "respectable" artistic objectives. He made several attempts to develop additional characters, such as the PI Jim Barnett, but in the end, combined them with Lupin. He wrote Lupin stories all the way into the 1930s.