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Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Wu Ch??ng-?n wrote Monkey in the middle of the sixteenth century, adding to an ancient Chinese legend his own touches of delicacy and humour. The result is an attractive jumble of the absurd and the profound, of religion and history, of anti-bureaucratic satire and pure poetry. While the story tells of ...Show more
Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Ch'eng-en
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu M ...Show more
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