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The Kai Lung books are really short-story collections, whose disparate, rambling tales are knitted together by framing narratives featuring the eponymous travelling storyteller. 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...

„The Wallet of Kai Lung” is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. These tales of an unlikely but marvelous China are classic works of fantasy, with each story holding a story-within-a-story. Ernest Bramah’s Kai Lung is a storyteller in an imagined China, telling tales of earnest examination...

The second volume of amusing Chinese fantasies. A captivating collection that’s ripe for rediscovery, „Kai Lung’s Golden Hours” stands as the very best of these beguiling books. As with other Kai Lung novels, the main plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the presentation of the gem-like, aphorism-laden stories told by the protagonist Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. With the...

Bóg-Cesarz Kairominas jest panem wszystkiego, co go otacza. Pokonał wszystkich wrogów, zjednoczył cały świat pod swoimi rządami i opanował magię. Większość czasu zajmują mu potyczki z arcywrogiem, który wciąż próbuje najechać świat Kaia. Dziś jednak jest inaczej. Dziś Kai musi się udać na randkę. Zewnętrzne moce zmusiły go do spotkania z kimś, kto mu dorównuje – kobietą z innego świata, która...