Ernest Bramah - Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories in One Volume (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Secret of the League, the Coin of Dionysius, the Game Played in the Dark…By Ernest Bramah
Length43h 35m
About this audiobook
Ernest Bramah - Ultimate Collection gathers more than twenty novels and short stories that display the remarkable range of a writer too often remembered for only one invention. Here are the urbane mysteries of the blind detective Max Carrados, the stylized chinoiserie and aphoristic wit of Kai Lung, and works of speculative, satirical, and social imagination. Bramah's prose is precise, ironic, and elegantly mannered, standing at a fascinating intersection of Edwardian detective fiction, late-Victorian exotic fantasy, and the magazine-story tradition. Born Ernest Brammah Smith in 1868, Bramah lived a varied life before literary success, working in farming, journalism, publishing, and political secretarial service. These experiences sharpened his eye for bureaucracy, class performance, rhetoric, and deception, all recurrent concerns in his fiction. His unusual combination of practical worldly knowledge and taste for verbal artifice helps explain both Carrados's disciplined rationality and Kai Lung's ornate, proverb-laden storytelling. This collection is recommended for readers interested in classic mystery, literary fantasy, and the evolution of popular fiction before modern genre boundaries hardened. It rewards both casual reading and scholarly attention, offering wit, ingenuity, and a distinctive narrative intelligence throughout.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Fantasy
Length43 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Ernest Bramah - Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories in One Volume (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5Max Carrados Series:
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6MAX CARRADOS
7The Coin of Dionysius
8The Knight's Cross Signal Problem
9The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage
10The Clever Mrs. Straithwaite
11The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor
12The Tilling Shaw Mystery
13The Comedy at Fountain Cottage
14The Game Played in the Dark
15Kai Lung Series:
16THE WALLET OF KAI LUNG
17The Transmutation of Ling (pt. 1)
18The Transmutation of Ling (pt. 2)
19The Story of Yung Chang
20The Probation of Sen Heng
21The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung
22The Confession of Kai Lung
23The Vengeance of Tung Fel
24The Career of the Charitable Quen-Ki-Tong
25The Vision of Yin, the Son of Yat Huang
26The Ill-Regulated Destiny of Kin Yen, the Picture-Maker
27KAI LUNG'S GOLDEN HOURS
28The Encountering of Six Within a Wood
29The Inexorable Justice of the Mandarin Shan Tien
30The Degraded Persistence of the Effete Ming-Shu
31The Inopportune Behaviour of the Covetous Li-Loe
32The Timely Intervention of the Mandarin Shan Tien’s Lucky Day
33The High-Minded Strategy of the Amiable Hwa-Mei
34Not Concerned With Any Particular Attribute of Those Who Are Involved
35The Timely Disputation Among Those of an Inner Chamber of Yu-Ping
36The Propitious Dissension Between Two Whose General Attributes Have Already Been Sufficiently Described
37The Incredible Obtuseness of Those Who Had Opposed the Virtuous Kai Lung
38Of Which It Is Written: “in Shallow Water Dragons Become the Laughing-Stock of Shrimps”
39The Out-Passing Into a State of Assured Felicity of the Much-Enduring Two With Whom These Printed Leaves Have Chiefly Been Concerned
40Other Novels:
41THE MIRROR OF KONG HO
42Introduction
43Letter I
44Letter II
45Letter III
46Letter IV
47Letter V
48Letter VI
49Letter VII
50Letter VIII
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