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Arsene Lupin Pdf Arsene lupin pdf Continue This article contains a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources are still unclear because it has no inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more accurate quotes. (July 2020) (Learn how and when to delete this template message) Arsène Lupin III For other uses, see Arsène Lupin (disambiguation). Arsène LupinCover of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur (1907)First appearanceArrest of Arsène Lupin (1905)Created byMaurice LeblancIn universe informationSpeciesHumanGenderMaleOccupationGentleman thief Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941), Arsène Lupin's creator Arsène Lupin is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. He was originally called Arsène Lopin, until a local politician of the same name protested. The character was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the journal Je sais tout. The first story, The Arrest of Arsène Lupin, was published on July 15, 1905. Lupin was featured in 17 novels and 39 short stories by Leblanc, with short stories or short stories collected in book form for a total of 24 books. The number will be 25 if the novel The Secret Tomb from 1923 is counted: Lupin does not appear in it, but the main character Dorothée solves one of Arsène Lupin's four fabulous secrets. The character has also appeared in a number of books from other authors as well as numerous film, TELEVISION, stage plays, and comic book adaptations. Five authorized sequels were written in the 1970s by the famousmysticd writing team of Boileau-Narcejac. Origins Arsène Lupin is a literary descendant of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrails Rocambole, whose adventures were published in 1857-1870. Like him, he is often a force for good, while working on the wrong side of the law. Those that Lupin defeats, always with his characteristic Gallic style and elegance, are worse villains than he is. Lupin shares distinct similarities with E. W. Hornung's archetypal gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, whose stories were published from 1898 to 1909. Both Raffles and Lupin can be said to have anticipated and inspired later characters such as Louis Joseph Vance's The Lone Wolf (created in 1914) and Leslie Charteris's The Saint (created in 1928). The character of Arsène Lupin may also have been based by Leblanc on the French anarchist Marius Jacob (1879–1954), whose trial made headlines in March 1905, but Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and had seen mirbeau comedy Scrupules (1902), whose protagonist is a gentleman thief. Fantasy elements Several Arsène Lupin novels contain some fantasy elements: a radioactive god-stone that cures people and causes is the subject of an epic battle in L'Île aux trente cercueils; the secret of the Fountain of Youth, a mineral water source hidden under a lake in Auvergne, is the goal pursued by the protagonists of La Demoiselle aux yeux verts; finally, in La Comtesse de Cagliostro, Lupin is the arch enemy and lover is none other than Joséphine Balsamo, the alleged granddaughter of Cagliostro himself. Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes Arsène Lupin Contre Herlock Sholmes Leblanc introduced Sherlock Holmes to Lupin in the short story Sherlock Holmes Arriving Too Late in Je Sais tout No. 17, 15 June 1906. In it, an older Holmes meets a young Lupin for the first time. After legal objections from Doyle, the name was changed to Herlock Sholmes when the story was collected in book form in Volume 1. Sholmes returned in two more stories collected in Volume 2, Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes, and then in a guest-starring role in the battle for the secret of The Hollow Needle in L'Aiguille creuse. Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes was published in the United States in 1910 under the title The Blonde Lady which used the name Holmlock Shears for Sherlock Holmes, and Wilson for Watson. In 813, Lupin manages to solve a riddle that Herlock Sholmes couldn't figure out. Sherlock Holmes, this time with his real name and along with familiar characters such as Watson and Lestrade (all copyright protection has long expired), also confronts Arsène Lupin in the 2008 PC 3D adventure game Sherlock Holmes Versus Arsène Lupin. In this game Holmes (and sometimes others) tries to stop Lupin from stealing five valuable British items. Lupin wants to steal the items to humiliate Britain, but he also admires Holmes and challenges him to try to stop him. In a short story The Prisoner of the Tower, or A Short But Beautiful Journey of Three Wise Men by Boris Akunin published in 2008 in Russia as the conclusion of Jade Rosary Beads book, Sherlock Holmes and Erast Fandorin opposes Arsène Lupin on December 31, 1899. Bibliography Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar (Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur, 1907 coll., 9 novellas) (AKA: Exploits of Arsène Lupin, Additional adventures of Arsène Lupin) Arsène Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmes (Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès, 1908 coll., 2 stories) (AKA: The Blonde Lady) The Hollow Show (L'Aiguille creuse, 1909, novel) 813 (813, 1910, novel) The Crystal Stopper (Le Bouchon de cristal, 1912, novel) The Confessions of Arsène Lupin (Les Trusts d'Arsène Lupin , 1913 coll., 9 novellas) The Teeth of The Tiger (Les Dents du tigre, 1914, novel) Published in English in 1914, but remained unpublished in French until 1920. The Shell Shard (L'Éclat d'obus, 1916, novel) (AKA: Woman of Mystery) Not originally part of the Arsène Lupin series, Lupin was written into the story in the 1923 edition. It is Triangle (Le Triangel d'or, 1918, novel) (AKA: The Return of Arsène Lupin) The Island of Thirty Coffins (L'Île aux trente cercueils, 1919, novel) (AKA: The Secret of Sarek) The Eight Features of Clock (Les Huit Heupper de l'horloge, coll 1922., 8 novellas) The Secret Tomb (Dorothée, Danseuse de Corde, 1923. The main character Dorothée solves one of Arsène Lupin's four fabulous secrets. Countess of Cagliostro (La Comtesse de Cagliostro, 1924, novel) (AKA: Memoirs of Arsène Lupin) Published in English in 1925. The overcoat of Arsène Lupin (Le Pardessus d'Arsène Lupin, published in English in 1926) Novella was first published in 1924 in France as La Dent d'Hercule Petitgris. Alternaned to a Lupin story and published in English as Arsène Lupin's overcoat in 1926 in The Popular Magazine The Damsel With Green Eyes (La Demoiselle aux yeux verts, 1927, novel) (AKA: The Girl with the Green Eyes, Arsène Lupin, Super Sleuth) The Man with goatskin (L'Homme à la peau de bique (1927, novella) The Barnett & Co. Agency (L'Agence Barnett et Cie., 1928 coll., 8 novellas) (AKA: Jim Barnett Intervenes, Arsène Lupin Intervens) The English edition contains The Bridge That Broke story, which was unpublished in France at the time. The Mysterious Mansion (La Demeure mystérieuse, 1929, novel) (AKA: The Melamare Riddle) The Emerald Cabochon (Le Cabochon d'émeraude (1930, novella) The Mystery of the Green Run (La Barre-y-va, 1931, novel) The Woman with Two Smiles (La Femme aux deux sourires, 1933, novel) (AKA: The Double Smile) Victor of the Vice Squad (Victor de la brigade mondaine, 1933, novel) (AKA: The Return of Arsène Lupin) The Revenge of the Countess of Cagliostro (La Cagliostro se revenge, 1935, novel) The Billions of Arsène Lupin (Les Milliards d'Arsène Lup 1939/1941 novel) - The official last book in the series, The Billions of Arsène Lupin, was serialized in 1939 and published posthumously as a book in 1941 - but without the ninth chapter The Safe (IX. Les coffres-forts). This release was later withdrawn at the request of Leblanc's son. In 2002, through the efforts of some Lupinians and Korean translators Seong Gwi-so, the missing chapter was restored and the full final Lupin novel published in Korea by Kachi Publishing House. [1] A complete French e-book is now also available,[2] as well as a printed edition of Editions Manucius (2015). [3] Arsène Lupin's Last Love (Le Dernier Amour d'Arsène Lupin, novel), written circa 1936 and posthumously published in 2012 after being found by chance in 2011 on top of a cupboard in a beige shirt with rusty hooks by Florence Bospflug-Leblanc. Plays written by Leblanc Arsène Lupin Originally a 4-part play written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset (1908), later romanced by Edgar Jepson and published in 1909 by Doubleday as Arsène Lupin: By Edgar Jepson Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1911) Return of Arsène Lupin (1920) Written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset. This Woman is Mine (Cette femme est à moi, (1930) A Quarter Hour of Arsène Lupin (Un quart d'heure avec Arsène Lupin, 1932) Stories by fellow authors The Adventure of Mona Lisa by Carolyn Wells in The Century (January 1912), a short parody of an International Society of Offallible Detectives with Sherlock Holmes as President and Arsène Lupin, The Thinking Machine , Monsieur Lecoq, A. J. Raffles, C. Auguste Dupin and Luther Trant as the other members. Certainly way to catch every criminal. It's me, it's me. It's me, it's me. by Carolyn Wells in The Century (July, 1912) The Adventure of the Clothes-Line by Carolyn Wells in the Century (May, 1915) The Silver Hair Crime (= Clue?) by Nick Carter in New Magnet Library No. 1282 (1930) Ōgon-kamen (The Golden Mask) by Edogawa Rampo (1930) La Clé est sous le paillasson by Marcel Aymé (1934) Gaspard Zemba appearing in The Shadow Magazine (December 1 , 1935) by Walter B. Gibson Arsène Lupin vs.
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