The Mirror Of Kong Ho: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mirror Of Kong Ho, credited to Ernest Bramah, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Mirror Of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah. Read in English by David Wales This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience of Western civilization in late nineteenth century London. The author is delightfully humorous. - Summary by david wales

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mirror Of Kong Ho
• Author credits: Ernest Bramah
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 5:57:57

Catalogue topics

• humor
• farce
• whimsy

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction -- Estimable Barbarian — 3:48
2. 01 - Letter 1 – Concerning the journey. The unlawful demons… etc — 19:36
3. 02 - Letter 2 – Concerning the ill-destined manner of existence of the hound Hercules. etc — 20:01
4. 03 - Letter 3 – Concerning the virtuous amusements of both old and young. etc — 20:21
5. 04 - Letter 4 – Concerning a desire to expatiate upon subjects of philosophical importance… etc — 19:48
6. 05 - Letter 5 – Concerning the neglect of ancestors and its discreditable consequences. etc — 21:57
7. 06 - Letter 6 – Concerning this persons well-sustained efforts to discover further demons. etc — 26:27
8. 07 - Letter 7 – Concerning warfare, both as waged by ourselves and by a nation devoid of true civilization. etc — 22:09
9. 08 - Letter 8 – Concerning the wisdom of the divine Wei Chung… etc — 32:00
10. 09 - Letter 9 – Concerning the proverb of the highly-accomplished horse. etc — 26:40
11. 10 - Letter 10 – Concerning the authority of this high official, Sir Philip. etc — 22:19
12. 11 - Letter 11 – Concerning the game which we should call ‘Locusts’… etc — 27:33
13. 12 - Letter 12 – Concerning the obvious misunderstanding which has entwined itself about a revered parent’s faculties of passionless discrimination. etc — 32:12
14. 13 - Letter 13 – Concerning a state of necessity… etc — 39:36
15. 14 - Letter 14 – Concerning a pressing invitation from an ever benevolently-disposed father… etc — 23:28

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