Kai Lung's Golden Hours

Ernest Bramah (1868 - 1942)

Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand And One Nights or Canterbury Tales. Kai Lung is an ancient Chinese storyteller who tells stories to postpone his criminal conviction in the court of a Mandarin. (david wales)

Genre(s): Single Author Collections

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface by Hilaire Belloc David Wales
00:09:41
Play 01 Chapter 1 The Encountering Of Six Within A Wood David Wales
00:18:00
Play 02 Chap 2 The Inexorable Justice Of The Mandarin Shan Tien Part 1 David Wales
00:27:49
Play 03 Chap 2 The Inexorable Justice Of The Mandarin Shan Tien Part 2 David Wales
00:26:35
Play 04 Chap 3 The Degraded Persistence Of The Effete Ming-shu Part 1 David Wales
00:33:18
Play 05 Chap 3 The Degraded Persistence Of The Effete Ming-shu Part 2 David Wales
00:32:01
Play 06 Chap 4 The Inopportune Behaviour Of The Covetous Li-loe David Wales
00:19:27
Play 07 Chap 5 The Timely Intervention Of The Mandarin Shan Tien's Lucky Day Part 1 David Wales
00:19:21
Play 08 Chap 5 The Timely Intervention Of The Mandarin Shan Tien's Lucky Day Part 2 David Wales
00:23:57
Play 09 Chap 6 The Highminded Strategy Of The Amiable Hwa-mei Part 1 David Wales
00:18:56
Play 10 Chap 6 The Highminded Strategy Of The Amiable Hwa-mei Part 2 David Wales
00:21:43
Play 11 Chap 7 Not Concerned With Any Particular Attribute Of Those Who Are Involved Part 1 David Wales
00:23:13
Play 12 Chap 7 Not Concerned With Any Particular Attribute Of Those Who Are Involved Part 2 David Wales
00:22:37
Play 13 Chap 8 The Timely Disputation Among Those Of An Inner Chamber Of Yu-ping Part 1 David Wales
00:30:36
Play 14 Chap 8 The Timely Disputation Among Those Of An Inner Chamber Of Yu-ping Part 2 David Wales
00:33:42
Play 15 Chap 9 The Propitious Dissension Between Two Who General Attributes Have Already Been Sufficiently Described Part 1 David Wales
00:28:32
Play 16 Chap 9 The Propitious Dissension Between Two Who General Attributes Have Already Been Sufficiently Described Part 2 David Wales
00:33:56
Play 17 Chap 10 The Incredible Obtuseness Of Those Who Had Opposed The Virtuous Kai Lung Part 1 David Wales
00:34:28
Play 18 Chap 10 The Incredible Obtuseness Of Those Who Had Opposed The Virtuous Kai Lung Part 2 David Wales
00:34:34
Play 19 Chap 11 Of Which It Is Written 'In Shallow Water Dragons Become The Laughing-stock Of Shrimp' David Wales
00:12:34
Play 20 Chap 12 The Out-passing Into A State Of Assured Felicity Of The Much-Enduring Two With Whom These Printed Leaves Have Chiefly Been Concerned Part 1 David Wales
00:37:50
Play 21 Chap 12 The Out-passing Into A State Of Assured Felicity Of The Much-Enduring Two With Whom These Printed Leaves Have Chiefly Been Concerned Part 2 David Wales
00:32:56