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.
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