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Kai Lung's Golden Hours

by Ernest Bramah

Level C1 · AdvancedFantasy13 chapters
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Length
13 chapters
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About this book

Step into a world where storytelling is an art of meticulous craft and wit, weaving Chinese-inspired tales filled with humor, philosophy, and vivid imagery. Discover the deliberate elegance behind each narrative, crafted to enchant and engage with precision and grace.

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Contents

13 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02CHAPTER I The Encountering of Six within a Wood
03CHAPTER II The Inexorable Justice of the Mandarin Shan Tien
04CHAPTER III The Degraded Persistence of the Effete Ming-shu
05CHAPTER IV The Inopportune Behaviour of the Covetous Li-loe
06CHAPTER V The Timely Intervention of the Mandarin Shan Tien’s Lucky Day
07CHAPTER VI The High-minded Strategy of the Amiable Hwa-mei
08CHAPTER VII Not Concerned with any Particular Attribute of Those who are Involved
09CHAPTER VIII The Timely Disputation among Those of an Inner Chamber of Yu-ping
10CHAPTER IX The Propitious Dissension between Two whose General Attributes have already…
11CHAPTER X The Incredible Obtuseness of Those who had Opposed the Virtuous Kai Lung
12CHAPTER XI Of Which it is Written: “In Shallow Water Dragons become the Laughing-stock…

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