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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... .............. xx. The. Tales. 331. XingZiyi ..................................................... 1613 332. Scholar Li .................................................... 1619 333. Lu Yaguan .........................................
... ...... 1844 The Exhausted Dragons ........... .................. 1847 Scholar Zhen ............................................. 1849 390. The Cloth Merchant .................................... 1854 391. Peng Erzheng .....
... scholar leads him to imagine receiving news of a cash gift and achievement of the highest designation in the imperial civil service system, only to embarrass himself in front of his wife and servants as he realizes it was just a dream ...
... Scholar Xu, hired to tutor the nephew of ghostly Shi Jingye, becomes close to Shi's maidservant, the title character of “Ainu,” who is also a ghost. His concern for her leads him to reunite her spirit with her corpse, and she returns to ...
... scholar, a little dog, and then a scholar again), until, in the course of his third incarnation, the younger man becomes the elder's son-in-law, and their interpersonal strife is finally, permanently, resolved. From Pu's subjective ...