Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hour written by Ernest Bramah and published by Nuvision Publications. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours written by Ernest Bramah and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2019-07-02T16:20:29Z with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours written by Ernest Bramah and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Kai Lung s golden hours written by Ernest Bramah and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1923.
Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours written by Ernest Bramah and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only at one point along the straight earth-road leading from Loo-chow to Yu-ping wasthere any shade, a wood of stunted growth, and here Kai Lung cast himself down in refugefrom the noontide sun and slept.When he woke it was with the sound of discreet laughter trickling through his dreams...
Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours written by Ernest Bramah and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only at one point along the straight earth-road leading from Loo-chow to Yu-ping was there any shade, a wood of stunted growth, and here Kai Lung cast himself down in refuge from the noontide sun and slept.When he woke it was with the sound of discreet laughter trickling through his dreams. He sat up and looked around. Across the glade two maidens stood in poised expectancy within the shadow of a wild fig-tree, both their gaze and their manner denoting a fixed intention to be prepared for any emergency. Not being desirous that this should tend towards their abrupt departure, Kai Lung rose guardedly to his feet, with many gestures of polite reassurance, and having bowed several times to indicate his pacific nature, he stood in an attitude of deferential admiration.
Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours Annotated written by Ernest Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...
Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours written by Ernest Bramah Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only at one point along the straight earth-road leading from Loo-chow to Yu-ping was there any shade, a wood of stunted growth, and here Kai Lung cast himself down in refuge from the noontide sun and slept.When he woke it was with the sound of discreet laughter trickling through his dreams. He sat up and looked around. Across the glade two maidens stood in poised expectancy within the shadow of a wild fig-tree, both their gaze and their manner denoting a fixed intention to be prepared for any emergency. Not being desirous that this should tend towards their abrupt departure, Kai Lung rose guardedly to his feet, with many gestures of polite reassurance, and having bowed several times to indicate his pacific nature, he stood in an attitude of deferential admiration. At this display the elder and less attractive of the maidens fled, uttering loud and continuous cries of apprehension in order to conceal the direction of her flight. The other remained, however, and even moved a few steps nearer to Kai Lung, as though encouraged by his appearance, so that he was able to regard her varying details more appreciably. As she advanced she plucked a red blossom from a thorny bush, and from time to time she shortened the broken stalk between her jade teeth.
Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours written by Ernest Smith and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours Annotated written by Ernest Bramah Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours written by Ernest Bramah and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 1922 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours written by Ernest Bramah and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a story or novel with a framework, that is, the narrative provides a framework for different stories. Think "Arabian Night" or "Canterbury Tales". Kai Lung is an ancient Chinese storyteller who tells stories to postpone his criminal conviction to the Mandarin court.
Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours Classic Reprint written by Ernest Bramah and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Kai Lung's Golden Hours All this is not extravagant praise, nor even praise at all in the conversational sense Of that term. It is merely a judgment a putting into as carefully exact words as I can find the appreciation I make Of this style and its triumph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Kai Lung s Golden Hours Illustrated written by Ernest Bramah Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kai Lung is brought before the court of the Mandarin Shan Tien after his confidential agent Ming-shu accuses him of treason. In an attempt to delay his judgment and ultimately his execution, Kai Lung retells his uncanny tales to the Mandarin and is successful in postponing his sentencing again and again until he is eventually set free, gaining the admiration and hand of the maiden Hwa-Mei in the process. As with other Kai Lung novels, 'Kai Lung's Golden Hours' is a rich, aphoristic tale wonderfully constructed by Ernest Brammah Smith. Sure to appeal to any discerning reader, this text constitutes veritable must-read for fans of Smith's work. Ernest Bramah (1868 - 1942) was an English author whose notable works include: 'Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat' (1928) and 'The Secret of the League' (1907). Originally published in 1922, we are proud to republish this antique novel now complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.Kai Lung is brought before the court of the Mandarin Shan Tien after his confidential agent Ming-shu accuses him of treason. In an attempt to delay his judgment and ultimately his execution, Kai Lung retells his uncanny tales to the Mandarin and is successful in postponing his sentencing again and again until he is eventually set free, gaining the admiration and hand of the maiden Hwa-Mei in the process. As with other Kai Lung novels, 'Kai Lung's Golden Hours' is a rich, aphoristic tale wonderfully constructed by Ernest Brammah Smith. Sure to appeal to any discerning reader, this text constitutes veritable must-read for fans of Smith's work. Ernest Bramah (1868 - 1942) was an English author whose notable works include: 'Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat' (1928) and 'The Secret of the League' (1907). Originally published in 1922, we are proud to republish this antique novel now complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
