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The Amateur Cracksman

by Hornung Ernest William

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Author: Hornung Ernest William

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A collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, an English author of the late 19th – early 20th century. It describes his most famous character A. J. Raffles, a gentleman thief, in late Victorian Great Britain. A courageous, amiable, well-mannered, handsome man, he lives in the Albany and provides himself by inventive burglaries.

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...his head. "Not you, " he said, smiling quite good-humoredly onmy insane enthusiasm. "I will, " I cried with an oath. "I'll lend you a hand as often as youlike! What does it matter now? I've been in it once. I'll be in itagain. I've gone to the devil anyhow. I can't go back, and wouldn'tif I could. Nothing matters another rap! When you want me, I'm yourman!"And that is how Raffles and I joined felonious forces on the Ides ofMarch. A COSTUME PIECELondon was just then talking of one whose name is already a name andnothing more. Reuben Rosenthall had made his millions on the diamondfields of South Africa, and had come home to enjoy them according tohis lights; how he went to work will scarcely be forgotten by anyreader of the halfpenny evening papers, which revelled in endlessanecdotes of his original indigence and present prodigality, variedwith interesting particulars of the extraordinary establishment whichthe millionaire set up in St. John's Wood. Here he kept a retinue ofKaffirs, who...