Author: Ernest Bramah
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Category : Kai Lung (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Author: Ernest Bramah
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517399030
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Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah. The main plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the presentation of the gem-like, aphorism-laden stories told by the protagonist Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. In Kai Lung's Golden Hours he is brought before the court of the Mandarin Shan Tien on treasonable charges by the Mandarin's confidential agent Ming-shu. In a unique defense, Kai Lung recites his beguiling tales to the Mandarin, successfully postponing his conviction time after time until he is finally set free. In the process he attains the love and hand of the maiden Hwa-Mei.

Author: Ernest Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel Ernest Bramah. It was first published in hardcover in London Grant Richards Ltd. in October, 1922, and there have been numerous editions since. The first edition...

Author: Ernest Bramah Smith
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781975882181
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Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards Ltd. in October, 1922, and there have been numerous editions since. The first edition included a preface by Hilaire Belloc, which has also been a feature of every edition since.

Author: Ernest Bramah
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502344083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah.

Author: Ernest Bramah Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel by English writer Ernest Bramah. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards Ltd. in October, 1922, and there have been numerous editions since. The first edition included a preface by Hilaire Belloc, which has also been a feature of every edition since.

Author: Ernest Bramah Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel by English writer Ernest Bramah. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards Ltd. in October, 1922, and there have been numerous editions since. The first edition included a preface by Hilaire Belloc, which has also been a feature of every edition since.

Author: Ernest Bramah
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Ernest Bramah’s Kai Lung stories are set in a fantastical ancient China and written with an oblique, ornate prose style that serves to mimic that of Chinese folk tales. The titular character is an itinerant storyteller and the books themselves are mostly collections of stories presented as if he were narrating. Kai Lung’s Golden Hours, published in 1922, is the second of the Kai Lung books, and the first to have an overarching framing narrative and thus be published as a novel. In it we see Kai Lung brought before the court of the Mandarin Shan Tien, having been accused of treason by the Mandarin’s agent Ming-shu. Appealing to Shan Tien’s appreciation for refined narrative, Kai Lung tries to regain his freedom by spinning a series of beguiling tales filled with aphorisms and humorous understatement. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author: Ernest Bramah
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846077194
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 330

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1923.

Author: Ernest Bramah
Publisher: Nuvision Publications
ISBN: 9781595478795
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Kai Lung is an itinerant story-teller in ancient China. "I spread my mat," he says, "wherever my uplifted voice can entice together a company to listen," and his powers of enchantment are abundantly revealed in this volume. He incurs the enmity of a sinister figure called Ming-shu, who is the confidential agent of the Mandarin, Shan Tien, and has to defend himself in the Mandarin's court against a series of treasonable charges. Kai Lung's defence takes the original form of inducing the Mandarin to listen to a recital of the traditional tales of China, and so well does he beguile the capricious tyrant that he secures one adjournment after the other and, finally, his freedom--as well as the love of the maiden Hwa-Mei.