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Kai Lung’s Golden Hours

Ernest Bramah

Novelsabout 9 h 45 min of listening

An ancient Chinese storyteller charged with treason uses his beguiling tales to avoid conviction.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Preface
  3. I: The Encountering of Six Within a Wood
  4. II: The Inexorable Justice of the Mandarin Shan Tien
  5. The Story of Wong Ts’in and the Willow Plate Embellishment
  6. III: The Degraded Persistence of the Effete Ming-Shu
  7. I: The Malice of the Demon, Leou
  8. II: The Part Played by the Slave-Girl, Hia
  9. III: The Incoming of the Youth, Tian
  10. IV: Events Round Walled Ti-Foo
  11. IV: The Inopportune Behaviour of the Covetous Li-Loe
  12. The Story of Wong Pao and the Minstrel
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  1. V: The Timely Intervention of the Mandarin Shan Tien’s Lucky Day
  2. The Story of Lao Ting and the Luminous Insect
  3. VI: The High-Minded Strategy of the Amiable Hwa-Mei
  4. The Story of Weng Cho; or, the One Devoid of Name
  5. VII: Not Concerned with Any Particular Attribute of Those Who Are Involved
  6. The Story of Wang Ho and the Burial Robe
  7. VIII: The Timely Disputation Among Those of an Inner Chamber of Yu-Ping
  8. The Story of Chang Tao, Melodious Vision and the Dragon
  9. IX: The Propitious Dissension Between Two Whose General Attributes Have Already Been Sufficiently Described
  10. The Story of Yuen Yan, of the Barber Chou-Hu, and His Wife Tsae-Che
  11. X: The Incredible Obtuseness of Those Who Had Opposed the Virtuous Kai Lung
  12. The Story of Hien and the Chief Examiner
  13. XI: Of Which It Is Written: “In Shallow Water Dragons Become the Laughingstock of Shrimps”
  14. XII: The Out-Passing Into a State of Assured Felicity of the Much-Enduring Two with Whom These Printed Leaves Have Chiefly Been Concerned
  15. The Story of the Loyalty of Ten-Teh, the Fisherman
  16. I: Under the Dragon’s Wing
  17. II: The Message from the Outer Land
  18. III: The Last Service
  19. Colophon
  20. Uncopyright

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Source: Standard Ebooks. CC0 1.0 (Standard Ebooks edition); the text is in the public domain

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