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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.
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Kai Lung's Golden Hours: Long Road Classics Collection - Complete Text - Oversized Large Print Edition
2022, Independently Published
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Kai Lung's Golden Hours (Esprios Classics)
2022, Blurb, Incorporated
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2020, Independently Published
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2018, Independently Published
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Kai Lung's Golden Hours
May 25, 2018, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Oct 29, 2015, Gateway, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Kai Lung's Golden Hour
June 28, 2007, NuVision Publications
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November 7, 2007, BiblioBazaar
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November 7, 2007, BiblioBazaar
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Kai Lung's Golden Hours
November 12, 2006, Hesperides Press
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Kai Lung's Golden Hours
June 30, 2004, Kessinger Publishing
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September 2003, Wildside Press
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January 31, 2003, Wildside Press
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1985, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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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. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.
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