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Monkey / Wu Chʻêng-ên ; translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley.
LIBRA - Special PL2697.H75 E5 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wu, Cheng'en, approximately 1500-approximately 1582.
- Series:
- Evergreen book ; E-112.
- An Evergreen book ; E-112
- Standardized Title:
- Xi you ji. English. Selections
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Xuanzang, approximately 596-664--Fiction.
- Xuanzang.
- Xuanzang, approximately 596-664.
- China--Fiction.
- China.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 306 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Press, [1984]
- Summary:
- Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Xi you ji.
- "Folk novel of China"--Cover.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wu, Cheng'en, approximately 1500-approximately 1582. Xi you ji. English. Selections. Monkey.
- ISBN:
- 0394172116
- 9780394172118
- 0802130860
- 9780802130860
- OCLC:
- 11371912
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