"A delightful exercise in inverted perspective." — Fantasy Literature. Charming modern fantasy, recounted with whimsical humor, relates a stalwart knight's encounter with a benevolent dragon who transports lonely and unwanted individuals to a utopia of abundance and harmony.

Excerpt from In the Claws of the Dragon He was receiving the guests for the inauguration of his newly built Chinese palace in the Rue de Babylon; and be examined them critically. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Sentimental Dragon Reizet still remained passive, wondering why their flying feet made no further sound on the stone flagging, for, though out of sight, they were not beyond hearing, and the momentary silence made itself uncannily felt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The River Dragon's Bride Doubtless that most honorable cognomen was borne by a hundred generations, or mayhap a thousand before him. It was as Handy Andy that the American Woman Doctor introduced him to me in her crude little Hos pital of the Good Shepherd back in the old city of Ancestral Abodes. This most ancient and delectable city lies in the very heart of those purple mountains which enwrap the path of the Ming River, remote from here, it seems to me to-day, a million miles. The trail I followed, at whose finish I found the city, the hospital, and finally Handy Andy, is a thousand years old - it may be ten times that for all I know. Was not the dreamy old river on whose tide our house boat floated spanned by the Bridge of Ten Thousand Ages, whose hoary grayness gave it every evidence of being true to name? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Sword and Dragon The lights of your train. It looked like a snake writhing down the loops from the Pass. Haraldson seen it too. He was moving around. I seen him strike a match. Then he got some waste from his pocket. Set it alight, put it on the brake-beam which pinned his feet to the ground. And began piling on kindlings and sticks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Dragon Painter But to know the full charm of the great city, one must wake with it at some rebirth of dawn. This hour gives to the imaginative in every land a thrill, a yearning, and a pang of visual regeneration. In no place is this wonder more deeply touched with mystery than in modern Tokyo. Far off to the east the Sumida River lies in sleep. Beyond it, temple roofs - black keels of sunken vessels - cut a sky still powdered thick with stars. Nothing moves, and yet a something changes! The darkness shivers as to a cold touch. A pallid haze breathes wanly on the surface of the impassive sky. The gold deepens swiftly and turns to a faint rose flush. The stars scamper away like mice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Adventures of a Green Dragon We called it the Green Dragon. Not that there was any particular sense in the name - except that it certainly was green; but as Miss Betsy Trotwood might have observed, In the name of Heaven, why - Dragon? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum Missionary Martyrs - The Sabbath Breaker Rebuked - Duty of Philanthropists - The Linchoo Massacre - The Zealous Missionary - Salvation Mary - Roman Priest Murderers - A Little Home; Traits of the Chinese - Why Missionaries are not Popular in the East - Some Evidence of their Failures - Reasons Why a Japanese Prefers his own to our Creed - Financial Facts; Tea Planters, etc. - Professional Etiquette - A Thorough Disguise - Mark Twain's Little Joke; New Friends - On Pride and Peace - A Warm Musical Seance - I Escape the Enemy - Gratuitous Slander; A Talk with Denshaw Mistry - Colonel Furse - How to Prepare for the Tropics - On Diet - A Hard but Necessary Law - The Straits and Penang - My First Rickshaw Ride - The Bee and its Lesson; My Afreet Friend - Effects of Latitudes - On Impressionist Drawing and Painting - Lady Sex-Writers - Singular Morality About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.