Ernest Bramah 4 hr 23 min read

The wandering storyteller Kai Lung, waylaid by a brigand on a lonely forest road, buys his life the only way he can, by spinning a tale, and then another, and another.

Ernest Bramah's 1900 collection is a beloved classic of comic Oriental fantasy. Witty, ornate, gloriously droll. Read it for the incomparable Kai Lung, a Chinese Scheherazade whose flowery, ironic, endlessly quotable tales delighted a century of readers, in a wickedly funny masterpiece of mock-Celestial style and gentle satire.

In its time

Published in 1900, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

4 hr 23 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).