Kai Lung’s Golden Hours
by Ernest Bramah
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bramah, Ernest, 1868-1942
- Title
- Kai Lung's Golden Hours
- Credits
- John Bickers and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Kai Lung (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 1267
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1267
- Release Date
- April 1, 1998
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.KAI LUNG’S GOLDEN HOURS — By Ernest Bramah — With a Preface by Hilaire Belloc — LONDON GRANT RICHARDS LTD. ST MARTIN’S STREET MDCCCCXXII — Contents
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.KAI LUNG’S GOLDEN HOURS
- 4.CHAPTER I The Encountering of Six within a Wood
- 5.CHAPTER II The Inexorable Justice of the Mandarin Shan Tien — The Story of Wong Ts’in and the Willow Plate Embellishment
- 6.CHAPTER III The Degraded Persistence of the Effete Ming-shu — The Story of Ning, the Captive God, and the Dreams that mark his Race — i. THE MALICE OF THE DEMON, LEOU — ii. THE PART PLAYED BY THE SLAVE-GIRL, HIA — iii. THE IN-COMING OF THE YOUTH, TIAN — iv. EVENTS ROUND WALLED TI-FOO
- 7.CHAPTER IV The Inopportune Behaviour of the Covetous Li-loe — The Story of Wong Pao and the Minstrel
- 8.CHAPTER V The Timely Intervention of the Mandarin Shan Tien’s Lucky Day — The Story of Lao Ting and the Luminous Insect
- 9.CHAPTER VI The High-minded Strategy of the Amiable Hwa-mei — The Story of Weng Cho; or, the One Devoid of Name
- 10.CHAPTER VII Not Concerned with any Particular Attribute of Those who are Involved — The Story of Wang Ho and the Burial Robe
- 11.CHAPTER VIII The Timely Disputation among Those of an Inner Chamber of Yu-ping — The Story of Chang Tao, Melodious Vision and the Dragon
- 12.CHAPTER IX 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
- 13.CHAPTER X The Incredible Obtuseness of Those who had Opposed the Virtuous Kai Lung — The Story of Hien and the Chief Examiner
- 14.CHAPTER XI Of Which it is Written: “In Shallow Water Dragons become the Laughing-stock of Shrimps”
- 15.CHAPTER XII 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 — i. UNDER THE DRAGON’S WING — ii. THE MESSAGE FROM THE OUTER LAND — iii. THE LAST SERVICE
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