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    Raffles - The Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman: Unabridged
    Raffles - The Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman: Unabridged
    Raffles - The Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman: Unabridged
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    Raffles - The Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman: Unabridged

    Written by E. W. Hornung

    Narrated by Candle Swift

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    About this audiobook

    A. J. Raffles is an 'amateur cracksman' and a gentleman-thief who with his wit and ingenuity befools everyone to get what he wants. Raffles is an antihero. Although a thief, he never steals from his hosts, he helps old friends in trouble. Additionally, the recognition of the problems of the distribution of wealth is a recurrent subtext throughout the stories. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of Sherlock Holmes on which he is based—he is a "gentleman thief", living at the Albany, a prestigious address in London, playing cricket for the Gentlemen of England and supporting himself by carrying out ingenious burglaries. He is called the "Amateur Cracksman", and often, at first, differentiates between himself and the "professors"—professional criminals from the lower classes. The critics complained about the criminal aspect; The Spectator declared "this sort of book presents crime in a form too entertaining and attractive to be moral".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudioliterature
    Release dateDec 20, 2017
    Raffles - The Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman: Unabridged
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    E. W. Hornung

    Ernest William Hornung (1866 –1921) was a prolific English poet and novelist, famed for his A. J. Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late 19th century London. Hornung spent most of his life in England and France, but in 1883 he traveled to Australia where he lived for three years, his experiences there shaping many of his novels and short stories. On returning to England he worked as a journalist, and also published many of his poems and short stories in newspapers and magazines. A few years after his return, he married Constance Aimée Doyle, sister of his friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with whom he had a son. During WWI he followed the troops in French trenches and later gave a detailed account of his encounters in Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front. Ernest Hornung died in 1921.

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