Author:Ernest William Hornung
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known as Willie, was an English author, most famous for writing the Raffles series of novels about a gentleman thief in late Victorian London. |
WorksEdit
FictionEdit
- A Bride from the Bush (1890)
- Under Two Skies: a collection of stories (1892)
- Tiny Luttrell (1893) Project Gutenberg
- The Boss of Taroomba (1894) Project Gutenberg
- The Unbidden Guest (1894) Project Gutenberg
- The Rogue's March: A Romance (1896) (transcription project)
- My Lord Duke (1897) Project Gutenberg
- Some Persons Unknown (1898) Project Gutenberg
- Young Blood (1898) Project Gutenberg
- Dead Men Tell No Tales (1899) Project Gutenberg
- The Belle of Toorak. US title: The Shadow of a Man: (1900) Project Gutenberg
- Peccavi (1900) Project Gutenberg
- At Large (1902) Project Gutenberg
- The Shadow of the Rope (1902) Project Gutenberg
- Denis Dent: A Novel (1903) Project Gutenberg
- No Hero (1903) Project Gutenberg
- The Camera Fiend (1911) Project Gutenberg
- Fathers of Men (1912)
- The Thousandth Woman (1913) Project Gutenberg
- Witching Hill (1913) Project Gutenberg
- The Crime Doctor (1914) frontispiece by Frederic Dorr Steele (No scan)
Raffles seriesEdit
Wikipedia article on A. J. Raffles
- The Amateur Cracksman (1899) Illustrated by F. C. Yohn
- The Ides of March — A Costume Piece — Gentlemen and Players — Le Premier Pas — Wilful Murder — Nine Points of the Law — The Return Match — The Gift of the Emperor
- The Black Mask. US title: Raffles (1901). Illustrated by F. C. Yohn
- No Sinecure — A Jubilee Present — The Fate of Faustina — The Last Laugh — To Catch a Thief — An Old Flame — The Wrong House — The Knees of the Gods
- A Thief in the Night (1905) (No scan)
- Out of Paradise — The Chest of Silver — The Rest Cure — The Criminologists' Club — The Field of Phillipi — A Bad Night — A Trap to Catch a Cracksman — The Spoils of Sacrilege — The Raffles Relics — The Last Word
- Mr. Justice Raffles (1909) Project Gutenberg
Stingaree booksEdit
(Also see "Posthumous publications" below)
- Irralie's Bushranger (1896)
- Stingaree (1905) [1] Illustrated by George Washington Lambert
Non-fictionEdit
- 'Trusty and Well Beloved', The Little Record of Arthur Oscar Hornung (Privately published, 1915)
- Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front (1919) (Commons file) Project Gutenberg
PoetryEdit
- Ballad of Ensign Joy (1917)
- Wooden Cross (1918)
- The Young Guard (1919) Project Gutenberg
Posthumous publicationsEdit
- Old Offenders and a Few Old Scores (1923) Short story collection.
- Raffles and E. W. Hornung (1999) (a biography of Hornung; revised and updated edition planned for 2017.) by Peter Rowland
- His Brother's Blood (2015), last unfinished novel
- Tall Tales (2015), a Hornung compilation
- The Graven Image, (2016), unfinished novel
- Stingaree Rides Again (2016), short stories [Stingaree #3]
More details on the above books can be found on [Peter Rowland's site]
Individual StoriesEdit
- "The Lady of the Lift" in Scribner's Magazine, August 1909
- "The Luckiest Man in the Colony", (1891) from The Strand Magazine, Volume I, April 1891 [2] (Included in Under Two Skies.)
- "The Notorious Miss Anstruther" (1891) from The Strand Magazine, Volume I, June 1891 (Included in Under Two Skies.)
- "The Man at the Wheel" (1910) in Scribner's Magazine, Aug 1910
- "The Poet of Jumping Sandhills" (1910) in Scribner's Magazine, Mar 1911
- "The Widow of Piper's Point" (1895) in Windsor magazine, Vol. 2
A complete list of his works can be found on Wikipedia
Works about HornungEdit
- "Hornung, Ernest William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
ReferencesEdit
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1926.
The author died in 1921, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 99 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.