Leblanc also wrote two notable science fiction novels: Les Trois Yeux (1919), in which a scientist makes televisual contact with three-eyed Venusians, and Le Formidable Ev nement (1920), in which an earthquake creates a new landmass between England and France. He continued to pen Lupin tales well into the 1930s.

Several times he tried to create other characters, such as private eye Jim Barnett, but he eventually merged them with Lupin. Like Conan Doyle, who often appeared embarrassed or hindered by the success of Sherlock Holmes and seemed to regard his success in the field of crime fiction as a detraction from his more 'respectable' literary ambitions, Leblanc also appeared to have resented Lupin's success.

Leblanc's house in tretat, today the museum Le clos Ars ne Lupin.īy 1907, Leblanc had graduated to writing full-length Lupin novels, and the reviews and sales were so good that Leblanc effectively dedicated the rest of his career to working on the Lupin stories. Clearly created at editorial request, it's possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasth nique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and he had seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules (1902), whose main character is a gentleman thief. The first Ars ne Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories that were serialized in the magazine Je sais tout, starting in No. Originally published together in 1907, this collection of the gentleman thief's very first adventures is the perfect place to start exploring his world of daring escapes, cunning disguises and ambitious heists.Maurice Marie mile Leblanc (11 December 1864 - 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Ars ne Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. What follows are wonderfully entertaining and action packed stories that finish with a brief encounter with none other than Sherlock Holmes. In the opening stories, Lupin is arrested, only to engineer his own incredible escape. This edition is translated from the French by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and features an introduction by Emma Bielecki. These beautiful hardbacks make perfect gifts for book lovers, or wonderful additions to your own collection. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. This French Robin Hood has charmed readers for generations and the stories about his dazzling escapades have been adapted countless times for television, stage and film, including the hit manga series Lupin III. And above all, he never takes himself too seriously.

A master of disguise, he steals from the rich, he outsmarts the police and he's generous to those in need. The inspiration for the hit Netflix show, Lupin, Arsène Lupin is charming, clever and bold.

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