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The Wallet of Kai Lung
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The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of humorous tales narrated by Kai Lung, a wandering storyteller in an imagined ancient China, written in an ornate, ironic style. It suits readers who enjoy classic English comic fiction and elaborate literary prose.
Ernest Bramah
Ernest Brammah Smith, who wrote under the pseudonym of Ernest Bramah, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were often 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. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book What Might Have Been influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.
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