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Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry-Tree
| Author: | Ernest Bramah |
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Grant Richards, 1940 |
| Series: | Kai Lung: Book 5 |
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1. The Wallet of Kai Lung |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Ernest Brammah Smith is best-known for two series, the Max Carrados books about a blind detective, all of whose Perceptions are enormously enhanced, and a series of tales in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories -- often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade.
This collection of eight Kai Lung stories came out in 1940, two years before the author's death. They show the same wit as the earlier ones. The China which Kai Lung inhabits has numerous features of the fantasy Land of Fable, and many of the embedded tales are fantasy; all are told in an ornate manner which ironically, often hilariously, exaggerates the old Chinese tradition of understatement and politesse. The main sequence begins with "The Wallet of Kai Lung" and ends with "Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry-Tree"; of the posthumous collections, "Kai Lung Raises His Voice" usefully assembles all the remaining series stories.
Contents:
- The Story of Prince Ying, Virtuous Mei, and the Pursuit of Worthiness - [Kai Lung] - short fiction
- The Three Recorded Judgments of Prince Ying, from the Inscribed Scroll of Mou Tao, the Beggar - [Kai Lung] - short fiction
- The Ignoble Alliance of Lin T'sing with the Outlaw Fang Wang, and How It Affected the Destinies - [Kai Lung] - short fiction
- The Story of Yin Ho, Hoa-mi, and the Magician - [Kai Lung] - short fiction
- The Story of Ton Hi, Precious Gem and the Incospicuous Elephant - [Kai Lung] - short fiction
- The Story of Sam-tso, the Family Called Wong, and the Willing Buffalo - [Kai Lung] - short fiction
- The Story of Sho Chi, the No-Longer Merchant Ng Hon, and the Docile Linnets - [Kai Lung] - short fiction
- The Story of the Poet Lao Ping, Chun Shin's Daughter Fa, and the Fighting Crickets - [Kai Lung] - short fiction
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