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Title The Story of Wan and the Remarkable Shrub -  
Transliterated Title - -  
Authors Ernest Bramah -  
Date 1927-09-00 -  
Synopsis
This is the first story Kai Lung tells within the 1928 novel Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, as "Wan and the Remarkable Shrub". "A sage, finding sleep to be an unwelcome obstruction to his pursuit of enlightenment, cuts off his eyelids and throws them away. At the spot where his eyelids land grows a shrub whose leaves look like his eyelids. Later, during a famine, the shrub is rediscovered and used to make a potion ..." --Wikipedia
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Series Kai Lung -  
Series Number - -  
TitleType SHORTFICTION -  
Length novelette -  
Content - -  
Non-Genre No -  
Juvenile No -  
Novelization No -  
Graphic Format No -  
Web Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Lung_Unrolls_His_Mat -  
Language English -  
Note
• Published September 1927 in The London Mercury, vol 16 (May to Oct), pp. 465-84. --OCLC 221488224 and "The September Magazines", The Saturday Review 1927-09-10, p. 344 • Published in The Best British Short Stories of 1928, ed. Edward J. O'Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1928), pp. 24-54. --OCLC 221495046 primarily
Published 1927 in The London Mercury, vol 16 (May to Oct), pp. 465-84. --OCLC 221488224 Published in The Best British Short Stories of 1928 (? Dodd, Mead, 1928). --OCLC 221495046 This is the first story Kai Lung tells within Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat (1928). --Wikipedia, as "Wan and the Remarkable Shrub"

-• Published September 1927 in <i>The London Mercury</i>, vol 16 (May to Oct), pp. 465-84.
---{{OCLC|221488224}} and "The September Magazines", <i>The Saturday Review</i> 1927-09-10, p. 344
-• Published in <i>The Best British Short Stories of 1928</i>, ed. {{a| Edward J. O’Brien}} (Dodd, Mead, 1928), pp. 24-54.
---{{OCLC|221495046}} primarily
+Published 1927 in <i>The London Mercury</i>, vol 16 (May to Oct), pp. 465-84. --{{OCLC|221488224}}
+Published in <i>The Best British Short Stories of 1928</i> (? Dodd, Mead, 1928). --{{OCLC|221495046}}
+<br><br>
+This is the first story Kai Lung tells within <i>Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat</i> (1928). --Wikipedia, as "Wan and the Remarkable Shrub"

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This title appears in 1 publications:

Publication Verification Type Primary Verifiers
The Story of Wan and the Remarkable Shrub, and The Story of Ching-kwei and the Destinies (1927-00-00) Secondary

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Submitted by Pwendt on 2019-10-19 17:57:32

Approved by Chris J on 2019-10-19 18:33:33

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