Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 5The weird and whimsical short stories in Strange Tales from Liaozhai show their author, Pu Songling (1640-1715), to be both an explorer of the macabre, like Edgar Allan Poe, and a moralist, like Aesop. In this first complete translation of the collection's 494 stories into English, readers will encounter supernatural creatures, natural disasters, magical aspects of Buddhist and Daoist spirituality, and a wide range of Chinese folklore. Annotations are provided to clarify unfamiliar references or cultural allusions, and introductory essays have been included to explain facets of Pu Songling's work and to provide context for some of the unique qualities of his uncanny tales. This is the fifth of 6 volumes. |
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... carriage and rode off. They paid Xing a hundred taels, and returned home with their daughter. Xing embraced Zhu as his wife, and although he was concerned about the condition of the house before, after receiving the gold, he was ...
... carriage and left. When several days had passed, some men were sent to force Chen into signing divorce papers, and his mother made him do so. She hoped that Ziyan could then return, so they could go somewhere else. But when the Zhou ...
... carriage and men on horseback appeared, and someone demanded, “Who's that man lying there?” Several men accompanying the carriage dismounted from their horses. The man inside it exclaimed, “It's my son. What vengeful demons would dare ...
... carriage, and it sped away as swiftly as wind and rain. In moments, they came to a government office, and when they climbed down from the carriage and entered its imposing gate, Xijiu's mother was there. The son's heartache was so great ...
... carriage, then looked until he found the pair of elm trees, recovered his father's body, and returned home. He buried his father in the same grave where he'd interred his mother, with family members and students of his father ...