Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
core collection 1928 Kai Lung
Record
| First published | 1928 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | collection |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.06 (90 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 244 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345237873 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat continues the series of story collections centered on Kai Lung, the itinerant Chinese storyteller whose travels and encounters provide the framing device for a further set of independent tales told in the author's characteristic ornate, mock-classical style. As in the earlier volumes, the individual stories mix wit, irony, and moral fable, gently parodying the conventions of traditional Chinese storytelling as filtered through an English literary sensibility. Kai Lung's own circumstances as a wandering entertainer, obliged to spin tales to satisfy patrons, audiences, or captors along his travels, continue to loosely connect the otherwise self-contained narratives, extending the voice and structure established across the series' earlier books.
Where it sits
- Universe: Kai Lung
- Series: The Kai Lung Stories core; position 3 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 3 of 4: previous Kai Lung's Golden Hours (1922) · next Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry-Tree (1940)
Sources
← Kai Lung dossier · All universes
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