Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat. [The Protecting Ancestors; The Great Sky Lantern; The Bringer of Good News][Wan & The Remarkable Shrub; Kin Weng & The Miraculous Tusk; Ching-Kwei & The Destinies; Kuo Tsun & His Daughter Peerless Chou; etc]

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1st edition ; v, 320 pp. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 28-14321 ; OCLC: 619027 ; LC: PR6037.M425 ; blue cloth with bright, colored, illustrated paste downs on front cover and spine ; wear to spine ; shaken ; front hinge starting ; an interesting attempt to fashion a novel in English after the style of Qing Dynasty stories, with a great number of proverbs and metaphors ; pencilings in margins ; "The third in Bramah's Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and his despicable accomplice Ming-Shu. Kai Lung's adventures are related with humor and irony, his shrewdness and wisdom conveyed in euphemisms, paradoxes and parables. Bramah's droll writing style went a long way toward making the Kai Lung series so popular." ; unusual ; FAIR. N° de ref. del artículo 3927

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