The Wallet of Kai Lung

by Ernest Bramah

Overview

Reprint of the original, first published in 1900.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783368403379
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	11/03/2022
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Ernest Bramah (20 March 1868 - 27 June 1942), born Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, What Might Have Been, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.
Bramah was a recluse who did not give the public details of his personal life. He died at age 74 in London.