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. Eliot was an avid reader of Lupin stories. 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". However, before this, in 1919 Agatha Christie reportedly considered basing her first detective on Lupin. The most memorable of these adaptations for an anglophone audience being the recent (but ongoing) Netflix series "Lupin", starring Omar Sy. The stories were wildly successful and later led to plays, TV adaptations and movies. Arsène Lupin, this carefree and dandy-looking thief, stealing from the Parisian aristocracy thanks to his formidable charm is a 'big-hearted thief ', a hero wearing a monocle, a black cloak and a top hat who travels through time and stretches across generations. The blueprint for this new magazine was England's Strand Magazine in which Conan Doyle had first introduced his character Sherlock Holmes. 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 creator of Arsene Lupin, Maurice Leblanc, was born in Rouen in 1864. Arsne Lupin, Gentleman Burglar is a collection of stories by Maurice Leblanc recounting the adventures of Arsne Lupin.
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