Raffles himself is a gentleman, meaning he maintains a certain lifestyle, but he is not titled and has no visible means of support for his sometimes lavish expenses. His Raffles is one of those creatures peculiar to the place and time- fin de siecle England, at the height of its imperial power and with a rigid class structure. This book is a collection of all the Raffles stories Hornung published between 18. Raffles and his sidekick, Harry "Bunny" Manders, when the stories were published serially in various British magazines, one has to conclude that Hornung succeeded. This was one of the first times in English literature an author tried to make a criminal into a popular, even heroic character, and given the reception of his anti-hero Arthur J. Already a fairly popular fiction author in his own right-his stories of Stingaree and other characters inspired by his adventures in Australia as a young man-the success of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes compelled Hornung to write about a sort of anti-Holmes (an "inversion," Doyle called him), a gentleman and patriotic Englishman who was also a burglar and thief, albeit one with principles.
Hornung was an English author of the late Victorian period, a friend of Arthur Conan Doyle and, later, married to Doyle's sister. It is the cunning exploits of this intrepid character that this volume is based wonderfully brought to life by narrator, Richard Mitchley.E.W. Raffles, ‘the gentleman thief’, was published first in Cassell's Magazine during 1898 and was to make him famous across the world as the new century dawned. Although spending most of his life in England and France he spent two years in Australia from 1884 and that experience was to colour and influence much of his written works. EW Hornung was one to succeed as this audiobook ably demonstrates.Įrnest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough England on 7th June 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel but it is an art in itself.
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