Kong Ho, a gentleman from the land of Fragrant Purity, writes home to his father describing the barbarian English with scrupulous politeness and total incomprehension. English institutions, slang, hospitality and London manners all pass under his ornate, deadpan gaze, and the joke falls chiefly on the English. The mock-Oriental idiom belongs to its 1905 moment.
A sharp epistolary satire from the creator of Kai Lung and Max Carrados, for readers who like their social comedy elaborately deadpan. Download the free EPUB.