Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 2The 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 second of 6 volumes. |
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... cao]), who “always failed the civil service examination and became depressed as a result,” dies, but subsequently becomes an immortal, and finds a unique way of repaying his classmate, Le Yunhe, who cares for Xia's wife and child ...
... Cao Cao to the hero Guan Yu in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Leaving it tethered outside would be a great waste—Pu's point is that homosexual love is a fruitless activity since it cannot produce children. Lü Bu: Another Three ...
... Cao Cao to trial, and he received twenty lashes.” The collector of these strange tales remarks, “A-man's case is one which has been judged many times, by generations of the Hell King. The villain's path Jiawu: A county in Shandong ...
... Cao Cao's crimes, have been administered to him; so since it's been over a thousand years, why not kill him, instead of torturing him endlessly? Cao Cao was an evil criminal, guilty of crimes for which he deserves to die ten thousand ...
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