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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who have read Hornung's "gentleman thief" series and want to explore his works in other genres.
- Researchers in English or comparative literature who need public-domain English fiction corpora.
- General English readers who habitually use e-readers and prefer free public-domain classics.
- Literature enthusiasts interested in the character of late Victorian English popular fiction.
Not a good fit for
- Beginner English learners who cannot yet read full-length English novels smoothly.
- Readers seeking detailed introductions, annotations, or scholarly translations.
- Readers looking for strong suspense or detective plotting and fast entertainment reading.
Reading tips
- Read the first five chapters first to grasp the character relationships and narrative tone, then decide whether to read the whole book.
- Use reading software that supports word-selection translation and vocabulary annotation to reduce the difficulty of long English sentences.
- Read this book alongside other works by Hornung and note differences in subject matter and characterization.
- When encountering suspected typographical errors, verify against other public-domain editions; there is no need to agonize over every word.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
E. W. Hornung (Ernest William Hornung, 1866–1921) was a British author best known for creating the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles. The collection here holds twenty-nine of his works, including the Raffles stories such as The Amateur Cracksman, Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman and A Thief in the Night, as well as crime and adventure novels like Stingaree and Dead Men Tell No Tales, and Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front, based on his experiences in the First World War. His writing is brisk and neatly plotted, with a polished tone suited to characters who live on the edge of the law, and it holds a place in the traditions of crime and adventure fiction. Public information about his life is limited, so this introduction concentrates on his subjects and style.
