The Collected Raffles Stories
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hornug, E. W. / Hornung, E. W. / Bloom, Clive, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This entertaining collection of crime stories presents ong>theong> adventures of one of fiction's most enduring characters, ong>theong> hyper-elegant A.J. Raffles, man-about-town, thief, ong>andong> "finest slow bowler of his generation." With his partner in crime, Bunny Mong>andong>ers, Raffles preys on ong>theong> rich, ong>theong> greedy, ong>andong> ong>theong> unspeakably vulgar. His talents are exercised not only in London, but as far afield as Italy, Australia, ong>andong> South Africa at ong>theong> height of ong>theong> Boer War. Throughout ong>theong>se exciting yarns ong>theong> emphasis on panache, with intensifying suggestions of fallibility, ong>goesong> to ong>theong> heart of late Victorian attitudes ong>andong> values.