Portrait by Albert Chevallier Taylor 1906
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Hornung, E.W.
The English teacher and journalist Ernest William Hornung (Willie to his family) was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s brother-in-law. If Sir Arthur was the father of Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective in the world, you could say that Hornung created the most famous crook, the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles. Like Holmes, Raffles has occasionally turned up in books by other authors.
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Indisk litteratur
By: Tomas Löfström
”Den indiska litteraturen sträcker sig långt tillbaka i tiden. De äldsta Vedaskrifterna, däribland Rigveda med sin kända skapelseberättelse, uppkom troligen redan kring år 1500 f Kr. Men till en början traderades dessa mestadels religiösa urkunder bara muntligt, och det dröjde många hundra år innan de började skrivas ner på sanskrit. --- ”