Download or read book The Secret of the League - The Story of a Social War written by Ernest Bramah and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1907 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Secret of the League' is a dystopian novel that tells the story of a government overthrown by the upper-classes. Ernest Bramah Smith was born was near Manchester in 1868. He was a poor student, and dropped out of the Manchester Grammar School when sixteen years old to go into the farming business. Bramah found commercial and critical success with his first novel, The Wallet of Kai Lung, but it was his later stories of detective Max Carrados that assured him lasting fame.