The Ernest Bramah Collection

ISBN-13: 9788028337575 / Angielski / Miękka / 580 str.

Ernest Bramah

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Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author. He published numerous thriller books, detective stories and supernatural tales, creating the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados. Bramah's detective stories were ranked with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood and his humorous works with Jerome K Jerome. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, The Secret of the League, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Contents: - Max Carrados - The Coin of Dionysius - The Knight's Cross Signal Problem - The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage - The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite - The Last Exploit Of Harry the Actor - The Tilling Shaw Mystery - The Comedy at Fountain Cottage - The Game Played In the Dark - The Wallet of Kai Lung - The Transmutation of Ling - The Story of Yung Chang - The Probation of Sen Heng - The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung - The Confession of Kai Lung - The Vengeance of Tung Fel - The Career of the Charitable Quen-Ki-Tong - The Vision of Yin, the Son of Yat Huang - The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-Maker - Kai Lung's Golden Hours: A Novel - Other Novels - The Mirror of Kong Ho - The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War