Fiction · 1900
The Wallet of Kai Lung
The Wallet of Kai Lung, first published in 1900, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Note
- Chapter I — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter II — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter III — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter IV — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter V — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter VI — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter VII — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter VIII — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter IX — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter X — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter XI — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter XII — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter XIII — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter XIV — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter XV — The Transmutation of Ling
- Chapter XVI — The Transmutation of Ling
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1868–1942 · Modern
Ernest Bramah (1868–1942), born Ernest Bramah Smith, was an intensely private English writer who worked as a farmer and then a journalist before turning to fiction; he gave interviews rarely if at all, and even his own publishers reportedly had few verified details of his life. He is remembered for two very different series: the Kai Lung stories, beginning with The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900) and continuing in Kai Lung's Golden Hours, elaborate comic fables narrated in a mock-formal, ornately courteous English style meant to evoke Chinese storytelling convention; and the Max Carrados mysteries, featuring a blind detective whose other senses render his disability almost an advantage — an unusual and influential figure in the genre. He died in Weston-super-Mare, England.
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