Author: | Ernest Bramah | ISBN: | 1230000538923 |
Publisher: | Jame-Books | Publication: | July 8, 2015 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Ernest Bramah |
ISBN: | 1230000538923 |
Publisher: | Jame-Books |
Publication: | July 8, 2015 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
Ernest Bramah, 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 74 a successful author, having a knowledge of chemistry, physics, law, philosophy, the classics, literature, the occult and ordnance, and being an expert in a branch of numismatics.
This book contains
The Wallet of Kai Lung
The Mirror of Kong Ho
The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War
Smothered in Corpses
Max Carrados
The Bunch of Violets
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Ernest Bramah, 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 74 a successful author, having a knowledge of chemistry, physics, law, philosophy, the classics, literature, the occult and ordnance, and being an expert in a branch of numismatics.
This book contains
The Wallet of Kai Lung
The Mirror of Kong Ho
The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War
Smothered in Corpses
Max Carrados
The Bunch of Violets
Kai Lung's Golden Hours