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>ong>theong>ong> adventures of one of fiction's most enduring characters, ong>ong>theong>ong> hyper-elegant A.J. Raffles, man-about-town, thief, and "finest slow bowler of his generation." With his partner in crime, Bunny Manders, Raffles preys on ong>ong>theong>ong> rich, ong>ong>theong>ong> greedy, and ong>ong>theong>ong> unspeakably vulgar. His talents are exercised not only in London, but as far afield as Italy, Australia, and South Africa at ong>ong>theong>ong> height of ong>ong>theong>ong> Boer War. Throughout ong>ong>theong>ong>se exciting yarns ong>ong>theong>ong> emphasis on panache, with intensifying suggestions of fallibility, goes to ong>ong>theong>ong> heart of late Victorian attitudes and values.