Publisher's Synopsis
The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah Smith, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. Although the collection is presented in the fashion of a novel, with each of its component stories designated chapters, there is no overall plot aside from each of the first eight tales being presented as narratives told by Kai Lung at various points in his itinerant career. The final tale is represented as being from a manuscript left by its own separate first-person narrator, Kin Yen. Ernest Bramah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features.
