Maurice LeBlanc

Le Cercle rouge est un roman cin matographique adapt par Maurice Leblanc. Il est adapt du film am ricain pisodes The Red Circle, dirig par Sherwood MacDonald. Il est paru d'abord en 82 feuilletons dans Le Journal, entre le 4 novembre 1916 et le 24 janvier 1917; puis, dans la collection hebdomadaire Les Romans-Cin mas, sous forme de 12 brochures aux ditions La Renaissance du Livre, du 22 f vrier au 7 mai 1917. Les 12 pisodes, qui constituent ce roman, sont: Le Client du docteur Lamar La Main d'une inconnue Le Pass surgit Le Manteau noir Des voleurs myst rieux Un autre cercle appara t O l'on retrouve les bijoux Chasse l'homme La Situation se tend La Vengeance de San Smiling La Dame au cercle rouge pilogue Extrait: Les poursuivants pass rent, sans soup onner que ceux qui ils donnaient la chasse se trouvaient, quelques m tres d'eux peine, de l'autre c t de cette palissade, qui semblait si bien close. Le vieux Barden, en tendant le cou, put, travers les interstices des planches, les entrevoir. Quand le bruit de leurs pas se fut perdu dans le lointain, le vieux bandit, tirant apr s lui Bob, sortit de sa cachette. - On a eu chaud... commen a, avec un ricanement touff , le jeune chenapan, satisfait de se trouver en s ret .

Ce livre est un recueil de deux nouvelles crites par Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941), sur les aventures opposant Ars ne Lupin et Herlock Sholm s. Il fait suite au livre pr c dent, Ars ne Lupin Gentleman-Cambrioleur, notamment le dernier chapitre, Herlock Sholmes arrive trop tard . Les deux histoires sont publi es pour la premi re fois partir de novembre 1906 dans le journal Je sais tout, sous le titre Les Nouvelles Aventures d'Ars ne Lupin. Le volume sort le 10 f vrier 1908. Herlock Sholm s est une copie transparente du c l bre h ros de Conan Doyle qui en 1906 conna t d j un tr s grand succ s en France, ses aventures tant publi es depuis 1902.

Le c l bre Ars ne Lupin, cambrioleur et gentleman, s'embarque dans une s rie d'aventures, o il ne manquera pas de finesse et d'ing niosit , pour d rober les biens de personnes fortun es. H ros au grand coeur, prot geant la veuve et l'orphelin, Ars ne Lupin manie le verbe avec l gance et courtoisie la mani re des gentilshommes de son temps. Il r alise m ticuleusement ses cambriolages sans jamais manquer d'honn tet . Ars ne Lupin tient toujours ses promesses Qualit s qui susciteront l'admiration et le respect du commissaire Ganimard qui est ses trousses...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Ars ne Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar is the first collection of stories by Maurice Leblanc recounting the adventures of Ars ne Lupin. Containing the first eight stories depicting the character, each was first published in the French magazine Je sais tout following the first on 15 July 1905. The seventh features fictional English detective Herlock Sholmes. This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1907 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Maurice Marie mile Leblanc was born on 11th November 1864 in Rouen, Normandy, France. He was a novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective, Ars ne Lupin. From the start, Leblanc wrote both short crime stories and longer novels - and his lengthier tomes, heavily influenced by writers such as Flaubert and Maupassant, were critically admired, but met with little commercial success. Leblanc was largely considered little more than a writer of short stories for various French periodicals when the first Ars ne Lupin story appeared. It was published as a series of stories in the magazine 'Je Sais Trout', starting on 15th July, 1905. Clearly created at editorial request under the influence of, and in reaction to, the wildly successful Sherlock Holmes stories, the roguish and glamorous Lupin was a surprise success and Leblanc's fame and fortune beckoned. In total, Leblanc went on to write twenty-one Lupin novels or collections of short stories. On this success, he later moved to a beautiful country-side retreat in treat (in the Haute-Normandie region in north-western France), which today is a museum dedicated to the Ars ne Lupin books. He died in Perpignan (the capital of the Pyr n es-Orientales department in southern France) on 6th November 1941, at the age of seventy-six.

L'Eclat d'obus, roman paru en 1914, est indissociable de son contexte. Paul Delroze, le personnage principal, est mari Elizabeth. Pendant sa jeunesse, il vit un drame terrible durant lequel son p re est assassin sous ses yeux, des mains d'une femme dont ils ne connaissaient rien sinon qu'ils l'ont vue accompagn e de Guillaume II. Paul raconte cette histoire sa jeune pouse alors qu'ils sont sur le chemin du ch teau du p re de la jeune-femme, situ Corvigny pr s de la fronti re allemande. En arrivant sur les lieux, Paul fait de terribles d couvertes... N'ayant plus rien perdre, il d cide de rejoindre les rangs des combattants. Ce roman de guerre patriotique qui met la nation sous son meilleur jour est aussi un roman d'espionnage o l'accumulation de myst rieux d tails nous tient en haleine.

The creator of Arsene Lupin, Maurice Leblanc, was born in Rouen in 1864. At the request of a Paris magazine, Je Sais Tout, he began a series of stories featuring the character Lupin, a 'gentleman thief', which appeared in this publication, starting in 1907. The blueprint for this new magazine was England's Strand Magazine in which Conan Doyle had first introduced his character Sherlock Holmes. The stories were wildly successful and later led to plays, TV adaptations and movies. The most memorable of these adaptations for an anglophone audience being the recent (but ongoing) Netflix series Lupin, starring Omar Sy. However, before this, in 1919 Agatha Christie reportedly considered basing her first detective on Lupin. Jean Cocteau wrote about the stories in his diaries, Sartre described Lupin as the Cyrano of the underworld. When Leblanc died in 1941 Ellen Queen pronounced him as the greatest thief in the whole world. Even T. S. Eliot was an avid reader of Lupin stories. The translation by Texeira da Matos is immaculate and reads as effortlessly today as it would have done in 1907 when this collection was first published. The book comprises 9 stories: THE ARREST OF ARSENE LUPIN ARSENE LUPIN IN PRISON THE ESCAPE OF ARSENE LUPIN THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE THE SEVEN OF HEARTS MADAME IMBERT'S SAFE THE BLACK PEARL SHERLOCK HOLMES ARRIVES TOO LATE