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Under Two Skies is a collection of short stories by E. W. Hornung. Hornung was an English author and poet. Excerpt: "The day was gorgeous, as those who were up at Lord's will remember; and the dresses of the ladies were in keeping with the day, as half a dozen newspapers observed next morning. Never, it was agreed, had the well-appointed ground in St John's Wood presented a fairer spectacle than during that interval. A perfect galaxy of beauty floated...
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The Amateur Cracksman is an 1899 short story collection by E. W. Hornung. A national sporting hero, Arthur J. Raffles[note 1] is a prominent member of London society. As a cricketer, he regularly represents England in Test matches. He uses this as cover to commit a number of burglaries, primarily stealing valuable jewelry from the elite of London, for thrill and profit. He is assisted in this by his friend, the younger Harry "Bunny" Manders, who idealizes...
3) No Hero
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A fantastic novel by Ernest William Hornung, the author most famous as the creator of the Raffles series of novels. Set in a Swiss hotel, an Eton boy has fallen in love with an 'adventuress', and the protagonist, a friend of the boy's mother, attempts to disillusion the boy.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Thief in the Night: A Book of Raffles' Adventures" by E. W. Hornung. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic...
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Excerpt: "Last summer, centuries ago, I watched the postman's lantern glow, As night by night on leaden feet He twinkled down our darkened street. So welcome on his beaten track, The bent man with the bulging sack! But, dread of every sleepless couch, A whistling imp with leathern pouch! And, now I meet him in the way And earth is Heaven, night is Day, For oh! there shines before his lamp An envelope without a stamp!"
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Mr. Justice Raffles is a 1909 novel written by E.W. Hornung. It featured his popular character A. J. Raffles a well-known cricketer and gentleman thief. It was the fourth and last in his four Raffles books which had begun with The Amateur Cracksman in 1899. Unlike the three previous works, the book was a full-length novel and featured darker elements than the earlier collections of short stories. In it a jaded Raffles is growing increasingly cynical...
8) Peccavi
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The story is largely one of sin and redemption. It emphasizes the intolerance of the late Victorian society by drawing from the prejudice and rigidity of Long Stow's inhabitants. The parishioners of the aforementioned village had condemned their parson as worthless upon discovering his affair with a choir girl notwithstanding the fact that he had willingly confessed to his own sin and taken responsibility, setting thus an example of Christian redemption....
10) Witching Hill
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Generations ago the evil nobleman Lord Mulcaster lived on the Witching Hill estate. Now everyone who comes to live in the suburban villas erected on the subdivided estate succumb to the curse of Mulcaster's bad deeds, and are driven to evil acts. Uvo Delavoye, an indirect descendent of Mulcaster, has to work out the reasons behind the crimes and tragedies committed on the estate. Written by Ernest William Hornung, the author most famous as the creator...
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Raffles, the gentleman thief, was created by E. W. Hornung, who was brother-in-law to the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. In many ways, Raffles is an inversion of Holmes, he has his own Watson in the form of Harry "Bunny" Manders, and he is a master of disguise. This compilation contains three Raffles stories: • The Amateur Cracksman • Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • A Thief in the Night
18) Tiny Luttrell
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Catherine "Tiny"Luttrell is the daughter of a sheep ranch owner in Australia. and is the youngest of three siblings, who are her brother Herbert and sister Ruth. The story opens with Tiny saying good bye to her childhood home at the ranch before going to London for the season to visit the recently married Ruth. But, she also says goodbye to Jack Swift the recently promoted ranch hand who was one of her early meaningless love affairs as everyone knows...
20) My Lord Duke
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A simple plot that steadily grows more complex. The book opens with supposed Duke Claude Lafont discussing the whereabouts of his lawyer, who he sent to Australia to search for the hitherto unknown heir to his Uncle's Dukedom. Jake Darrendall a cat loving sheepherder from the bush of Australia. Hornung gets all the mileage he can out of such a simple premise with several twists. Every character has an arc even the character, who talks about exclusively...
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