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[Title] The Wallet of Kai Lung (Kai Lung #1) [Author] Ernest Bramah [Rating] ★★★ [Year] 2002 [Read] 2013/07/19 [Review] 
One reads this for the language on display by Bramah: the absurd sustained Latinate circumlocutions which forever perendinate and cunctate on expressing their simple sense. As far as that goes, it’s quite an interesting exercise and the source of a number of parodic versions of China/Japan, I suspect. I am not sure how many people are up to a entire sustained anthology of this, though: the stories are relatively flimsy and one can drown in the prose while losing track utterly of the plot and personages, which certainly is not calculated to create charm nor cheer in the consumer.
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