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The Mirror Of Kong Ho

Ernest Bramah (1868 - 1942)

This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience of Western civilization in late nineteenth century London. The author is delightfully humorous. - Summary by david wales

Genre(s): Epistolary Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Published 1900 onward

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Introduction -- Estimable Barbarian	David Wales	00:03:48
Play 01	Letter 1 – Concerning the journey. The unlawful demons… etc	David Wales	00:19:37
Play 02	Letter 2 – Concerning the ill-destined manner of existence of the hound Hercules. etc	David Wales	00:20:01
Play 03	Letter 3 – Concerning the virtuous amusements of both old and young. etc	David Wales	00:20:21
Play 04	Letter 4 – Concerning a desire to expatiate upon subjects of philosophical importance… etc	David Wales	00:19:48
Play 05	Letter 5 – Concerning the neglect of ancestors and its discreditable consequences. etc	David Wales	00:21:57
Play 06	Letter 6 – Concerning this persons well-sustained efforts to discover further demons. etc	David Wales	00:26:27
Play 07	Letter 7 – Concerning warfare, both as waged by ourselves and by a nation devoid of true civilization. etc	David Wales	00:22:09
Play 08	Letter 8 – Concerning the wisdom of the divine Wei Chung… etc	David Wales	00:32:00
Play 09	Letter 9 – Concerning the proverb of the highly-accomplished horse. etc	David Wales	00:26:40
Play 10	Letter 10 – Concerning the authority of this high official, Sir Philip. etc	David Wales	00:22:19
Play 11	Letter 11 – Concerning the game which we should call ‘Locusts’… etc	David Wales	00:27:33
Play 12	Letter 12 – Concerning the obvious misunderstanding which has entwined itself about a revered parent’s faculties of passionless discrimination. etc	David Wales	00:32:13
Play 13	Letter 13 – Concerning a state of necessity… etc	David Wales	00:39:36
Play 14	Letter 14 – Concerning a pressing invitation from an ever benevolently-disposed father… etc	David Wales	00:23:28

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