The Wallet of Kai Lung

by Ernest Bramah

Overview

The sun had dipped behind the western mountains before Kai Lung, with twenty li or more still between him and the city of Knei Yang, entered the camphor-laurel forest which stretched almost to his destination. No person of consequence ever made the journey unattended; but Kai Lung professed to have no fear, remarking with extempore wisdom, when warned at the previous village, that a worthless garment covered one with better protection than that afforded by an army of bowmen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783368403362
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	11/03/2022
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868 - 27 June 1942), born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, What Might Have Been, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.
Bramah was a recluse who did not give the public details of his personal life. He died at age 74 in London.