Kai Lung's Golden Hours
core collection 1922 Kai Lung
Record
| First published | 1922 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | collection |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.02 (188 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 236 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780486471945 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Kai Lung's Golden Hours continues the pattern established in The Wallet of Kai Lung, presenting a further collection of tales told by the wandering storyteller Kai Lung, again framed by his travels and the situations in which he finds himself obliged to entertain an audience with a story. The individual tales continue the earlier volume's ornate, mock-classical prose style and its gentle parody of Chinese storytelling conventions, mixing wit, irony, and moral fable in narratives that stand largely independent of one another. Kai Lung's own situation, navigating the practical demands of an itinerant storyteller's life, again provides the loose connective frame around the collection, extending the character and voice introduced in the first volume of the series.
Where it sits
- Universe: Kai Lung
- Series: The Kai Lung Stories core; position 2 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ernest Bramah
Notes
- From the series record (The Kai Lung Stories): Four completed story collections following the storyteller Kai Lung in an invented, deliberately fanciful chinoiserie setting; a foundational Edwardian-era pulp fantasy series, complete since the author's death in 1942.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Kai Lung Stories: position 2 of 4: previous The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900) · next Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat (1928)
Sources
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