Books by Ernest Bramah

Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller whose travels and exploits serve mainly as excuses to introduce substories. He is a man of very simple motivations; most frequently, he is animated by a desire for enough taels to be able to feed and clothe himself. This character usually comes into conflict with barbarians, bandits, and other people who are not classically educated, as well as various unscrupulous individuals who are intent on taking away his property. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah''s detective stories were ranked with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. Table of Contents: ΓÇó The Wallet of Kai Lung ΓÇó The Transmutation of Ling ΓÇó The Story of Yung Chang ΓÇó The Probation of Sen Heng ΓÇó The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung ΓÇó The Confession of Kai Lung ΓÇó The Vengeance of Tung Fel ΓÇó The Career of the Charitable Quen-Ki-Tong ΓÇó The Vision of Yin, the Son of Yat Huang ΓÇó The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-Maker ΓÇó Kai Lung''s Golden Hours ΓÇó Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

Max Carrados is a blind detective who makes use of his remaining senses in such a way that his blindness is often not immediately apparent to others. Carrados enjoys the excitement of revealing his explanations of mysteries through powers of perception, which in his case are heightened in positive compensation for his visual impairment. George Orwell wrote that, together with those of Conan Doyle and R. Austin Freeman, Max Carrados stories "are the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading." Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah''s detective stories were ranked with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. Table of Contents: ΓÇó Max Carrados ΓÇó The Coin of Dionysius ΓÇó The Knight''s Cross Signal Problem ΓÇó The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage ΓÇó The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite ΓÇó The Last Exploit Of Harry the Actor ΓÇó The Tilling Shaw Mystery ΓÇó The Comedy at Fountain Cottage ΓÇó The Game Played In the Dark ΓÇó The Eyes of Max Carrados ΓÇó The Virginiola Fraud ΓÇó The Disappearance of Marie Severe ΓÇó The Secret of Dunstan''s Tower ΓÇó The Mystery of the Poisoned Dish of Mushrooms ΓÇó The Ghost at Massingham Mansions ΓÇó The Missing Actress Sensation ΓÇó The Ingenious Mr. Spinola ΓÇó The Kingsmouth Spy Case ΓÇó The Eastern Mystery ΓÇó Max Carrados Mysteries ΓÇó The Secret of Headlam Height ΓÇó The Mystery of the Vanished Petition Crown ΓÇó The Holloway Flat Tragedy ΓÇó The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes ΓÇó The Ingenious Mind of Mr. Rigby Lacksome ΓÇó The Crime at the House in Culver Street ΓÇó The Strange Case of Cyril Bycourt ΓÇó The Missing Witness Sensation ΓÇó The Bravo of London: A Novel

The third in Bramah's Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and his despicable accomplice Ming-Shu. Kai Lung's adventures are related with humor and irony, his shrewdness and wisdom conveyed in euphemisms, paradoxes and parables. Bramah's droll writing style went a long way toward making the Kai Lung series so popular.

A secret organization of upper class dissenters, called The League, is not happy with their weak government and wants to overthrow it. In a clever plan they bring about a civil war in Britain by manipulating the coal strike with foreign help and plant a fascist regime in its place. What comes about is a total breakdown giving an accurate prediction of the rise of Fascism, as George Orwell famously noted. Superficially the novel (also alternately known as What Might Have Been) seems like it is promoting the cause of The League but it is in fact a bleary take on what might end up happening if such a thing comes to pass when the government is overtaken by the conservatives. Who becomes a hero and who becomes a villain is only a matter of seizing absolute power! In fact Orwell credited this novel as his inspiration behind his own successful dystopian classic 1984. Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author and a recluse who wrote the famous Kai Lung and Max Carrados series. Interestingly Bramah''s 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.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset again to produce it without any errors or poor pictures and errant marks.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We havent used any OCR or photocopy to produce this book. The whole book has been typeset again to produce it without any errors or poor pictures and errant marks.

The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China.

A lively and amusing collection of letters on western living written by Kong Ho, a Chinese gentleman. These addressed to his homeland, refer to the Westerners in London as barbarians and many of the aids to life in our society give Kong Ho endless food for thought. These are things such as the motor car and the piano; unknown in China at this time.

Kai Lung is a wandering storyteller accused of treason-and like Scheherazade of The One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, he must rely upon his silver tongue to escape conviction. With the help of beautiful Hwa Mei, who has the attention of evil Ming Shu, Kai tries to regain his freedom by spinning a series of entertaining tales that intrigue his captor. Laced with romance and adventure, spiced with fantasy and the supernatural, these stories will transport readers to a mandarin's court in ancient China.