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Wallet of Kai Lung
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The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. The collection's importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by the anthologization of two of its tales in the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series. - Summary by Alan Winterrowd (from Wikipedia)
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Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) was an English author of detective fiction.
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