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1、AThiefintheNightHornung,ErnestWilliamPublished:1905Type(s):ShortFiction,Crime/Mystery,CollectionsSource:Feedbooks1AboutHornung:ErnestWilliamHornung(June7,1866–March22,1921),knownasWillie,wasanEnglishauthor,mostfamousforwritingtheRafflesseriesofnovelsaboutaGentlemanthiefinlateVictorianL
2、ondon.HornungwasthethirdsonofJohnPeterHornung,aHungarian,andwasborninMiddlesbrough,England.HewaseducatedatUppinghamSchooldur-ingsomeofthelateryearsofitsgreatheadmaster,EdwardThring.HespentmostofhislifeinEnglandandFrance,butin1884leftforAustraliaandstayedfortwoyearswhereheworkingasatuto
3、ratMossgielsta-tion.AlthoughhisAustralianexperiencehadbeensoshort,itcolouredmostofhisliteraryworkfromABridefromtheBushpublishedin1899,toOldOffendersandafewOldScores,whichappearedafterhisdeath.HereturnedfromAustraliain1886,andmarriedConstance("Connie")Doyle(1868-1924),thesisterofSirArth
4、urConanDoylein1893.HornungpublishedthepoemsBondandFreeandWoodenCrossesinTheTimes.ThecharacterofA.J.Raffles,a"gentlemanthief",firstappearedinCassell'sMagazinein1898andthestorieswerelatercollectedasTheAmateurCracksman(1899).OthertitlesintheseriesincludeTheBlackMask(1901),AThiefintheNight
5、(1905),andthefull-lengthnovelMr.JusticeRaffles(1909).Healsoco-wrotetheplayRaffles,TheAmateurCracksmanwithEugenePresbreyin1903.Hornung'sonlychild,ason,waskilledatYpresonJuly6,1915;HornungthentookupworkwiththeYMCAinFrance.HornungdiedinSt.JeandeLuz,Francein1921,sur-vivedbyhiswife.Inadditi
6、ontohisnovelsandshortstoriesHornungwrotesomegoodwarverse,andaplaybasedontheRafflesstorieswasproducedsuccessfully.Hewasmuchinterestedincricket,andwas"amanoflargeandgenerousnature,adelightfulcompanionandconversa-tionalist".ThemodelforRaffleswasGeorgeIves,aCambridge-educatedcriminologista
7、ndtalentedcricketeracordingtoLycett.Iveswasadis-creetgay,andalthoughHornung"maynothaveunderstoodthissexualsideofIves'character",Raffles"enjoysaremarkablyintimaterelation-shipwithhissidekickBunnyManders."23Part1OutofParadise4IfImusttellmoretalesofRaffles,Icanbutbacktoourearliestdaysto
