Word: wallet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also a book to keep -and a book that can be reread again and again, because it has that certain intangible felicity of manner about it that has frequently been called style. Of its kind, it is a minor classic. The Critics. Hilaire Belloc in his preface: "The Wallet of Kai Lung (a predecessor to Kai Lung's Golden Hours) was a thing made deliberately, in hard material, and completely successful. It was meant to produce a particular effect of humor by the use of a foreign convention, the Chinese convention, in the English tongue. It was meant...