Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 6The 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 sixth of 6 volumes. |
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... return home following the Great Evacuation edict of 1661, which was designed to ferret out Ming loyalists. Pu inserts him obliquely into his story knowing that Zhou's reputation would not be tarnished by a fiction, while the mere ...
... return home, he found the young woman already waiting for him in the open countryside beyond the offices. Feng lived in a village that wasn't very far from that town, so the young woman followed after him. When they entered his home ...
... returned, transporting rare plants from the south. With them, he set up a ... home, and in two years he built a summer house. He initiated the ... returned home. Huangying instructed servants to plant the chrysanthemums, following Tao's ...
... reached their mature flowering. One morning he passed a flower shop, where he saw pots arranged meticulously in a ... return to Shuntian with him. “Jinling has become my home base,” Tao told him, “and hence I'm about to get married. I ...
... returned her to her home. The collector of these strange tales remarks, “The accumulation of possessions in this world provokes jealousy, and obsessive love of them causes evil: if this makes Yan Ruyu a demon, then it must make books ...