Kai Lung Golden Hours Ernest Bramah Hilaire Belloc 9781489568700 Books
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Like Scheherazade of The One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, Kai Lung relies upon his prowess as a storyteller to save his neck when he's accused of treason. His traditional tales — laced with thought-provoking aphorisms — will transport readers to a mandarin's court in ancient China. Written by an English author admired by the likes of George Orwell, this captivating work is ripe for rediscovery.
“It is now many years--I forget how many; it may be twenty or more, or it may be a little less--since The Wallet of Kai Lung was sent me by a friend. The effect produced upon my mind at the first opening of its pages was in the same category as the effect produced by the discovery of that hidden statue in Burgundy, or the coming upon an unexpected house in the turn of a high Pyrenean gorge. Here was something worth doing and done.” -Hilaire Belloc
British author Ernest Bramah develops his own unique versions of classic Chinese folktales – and creates a few entirely new ones – in the stories collected in Kai Lung's Golden Hours. Effortlessly embodying the clarity and purity of ancient Asian mythology, these short, sweet and often humorous stories will enchant readers young and old alike.
"The Encountering of Six within a Wood" "The Inexorable Justice of the Mandarin Shan Tien" "The Story of Wong T'sin and the Willow Plate Embellishment" "The Degraded Persistence of the Effete Ming-shu" "The Story of Ning, the Captive God, and the Dreams that mark his Race" "The Inopportune Behaviour of the Covetous Li-loe" "The Story of Wong Pao and the Minstrel" "The Timely Intervention of the Mandarin Shan Tien's Lucky Day" "The Story of Lao Ting and the Luminous Insect" "The High-minded Strategy of the Amiable Hwa-mei" "The Story of Weng Cho; or, the One Devoid of Name" "Not Concerned with any Particular Attribute of Those who are Involved" "The Story of Wang Ho and the Burial Robe" "The Timely Disputation among Those of an Inner Chamber of Yu-Ping" "The Story of Chang Tao, Melodious Vision and the Dragon" "The Propitious Dissension between Two whose General Attributes have already been sufficiently Described" "The Story of Yuen Yan, of the Barber Chou-hu, and His Wife, Tsae-che" "The Incredible Obtuseness of Those who had Opposed the Virtuous Kai Lung" "The Story of Hien and the Chief Examiner" "Of Which it is Written 'In Shallow Water Dragons become the Laughing-stock of Shrimps'" "The Out-passing into a State of Assured Felicity of the Much-Enduring Two With Whom These Printed Leaves Have Chiefly Been Concerned" "The Story of the Loyalty of Ten-teh, the Fisherman"
Kai Lung Golden Hours Ernest Bramah Hilaire Belloc 9781489568700 Books
Kai Lung's Golden Hours is an excellent book, connecting about a dozen stories that vary from engrossing or touching to hilarious, each told with the sparkling wit and faux-mythic-China setting that are the defining features indelibly associated with the name "Kai Lung," with a simple but nonetheless gripping story *about* Kai Lung.The Wildside Press edition, however, is an inferior reprint edition. In a handful of places a character's faux-Chinese name is replaced by a similar ordinary English word, and in several places two paragraphs of dialogue run together with only a space, not the usual line break and indentation, between them. This is the quality that one expects from editions advertised with verbiage like "This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes ..." But the Wildside Press advertises no such possible defects. The lack of a table of contents adds insult to injury, since a couple of the stories are memorable gems that one may find oneself wanting to quote even years later.
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Kai Lung Golden Hours Ernest Bramah Hilaire Belloc 9781489568700 Books Reviews
How can you not want to read something Lord Peter Wimsey mentions? This one has been on my wish list for years; I'm glad to have it.
Well written, enjoyable, and chock-full of subtle moral lessons. At a time when so much of what passes for fantasy writing is nothing more than junk, Wallet of Kai Lung does not pretend, like so many others, to be like Tolkien, or anyone else. It's just a good, fun, read all on its own.
Bramah sure can spin a phrase. The book is a collection of stories told by Kai Lung, and as such is excellent. You are transported back into this fictional China, where introductions can take hours as the two people flatter each other & humble themselves endlessly. The stories are very amusing, but be forewarned; the language takes some time to read through & comprehend. Not a book to breeze through (but oh so rewarding when you do read it!)
as are both of the Kai Lung books. Kai Lung is an itinerant story teller in ancient China, and these are some of his stories.
Actually, of course, these are stories written by Ernest Bramah, who did NOT live in ancient China, but only pretended he did, but from a Western perspective they're still extremely good stories, and in reality they were written for the Western world.
Enjoy.
It is always satisfying when virtue and righteousness triumph over ignorance and superstition, and especially when the triumph is accompanied by humor and an articulate expression of entertaining ideas. The Kai Lung books are among the very few texts that I will take time to re-read. One caveat is that not everyone will appreciate Bramah's prose style. Before ordering a copy of any Kai Lung book, you would be well advised to read a sample. If you enjoy it, then many felicitations will accompany your reading.
I love the over-the-top pseudo-chinese-classical style of Bramah's writing "It is indeed unlikely that you could condescend to stop and listen to the foolish words of such an insignificant and altogether deformed person as myself. Nevertheless, if you could retard your elegant footsteps for a few moments, this exeedingly unprepossessing individual will endeavor to entertain you."
If you don't like that style, you'll find it difficult to get past it to the entertaining and humorous stories of Kai Lung.
The formatting could use some improvement (uneven margins on my iPhone, double line breaks for paragraphs), but it's not too bad.
The book is a series of stories told by Kai Lung, an itinerant Chinese story teller. The China involved is rather like the Mikado's Japan - a vehicle for making fun of Britain. I sought out this book because Dorothy Sayers used quotes from it to head chapters in one of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels. Recommended for those who enjoy Wodehouse, Sayers and other light-hearted wordsmiths of the early twentieth century and those who enjoy humorous adventure stories. Not recommended for the racial grievance oriented since Asian stereotypes are used for humorous effects in a good natured manner. (I also enjoyed Potash and Perlmutter which is similarly "offensive" to my own ethnicity by current standards.)
Kai Lung's Golden Hours is an excellent book, connecting about a dozen stories that vary from engrossing or touching to hilarious, each told with the sparkling wit and faux-mythic-China setting that are the defining features indelibly associated with the name "Kai Lung," with a simple but nonetheless gripping story *about* Kai Lung.
The Wildside Press edition, however, is an inferior reprint edition. In a handful of places a character's faux-Chinese name is replaced by a similar ordinary English word, and in several places two paragraphs of dialogue run together with only a space, not the usual line break and indentation, between them. This is the quality that one expects from editions advertised with verbiage like "This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes ..." But the Wildside Press advertises no such possible defects. The lack of a table of contents adds insult to injury, since a couple of the stories are memorable gems that one may find oneself wanting to quote even years later.
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