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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... took bribes from candidates and that there were always ways around the supposed safeguard of assigning the scholars seat numbers and having them remain otherwise anonymous to examiners and other candidates: if “a certain character ...
... took you for a sophisticated person of high character, someone who could live contentedly in poverty, but now what you're proposing to do would turn the chrysanthemum garden into a marketplace, a disgrace to the yellow flowers there ...
... took some mats woven from marsh grasses and wrapped his chrysanthemums up in them, then tied them into bundles, carried them over to several carts, and left with them. A year went by, and when spring was half over, he returned ...
... took his clothing and covered him up, then urged Ma to stay away, warning him not to watch. When morning came and he went out to look, he found Tao lying beside the flower bed. Ma finally realized Fourth watch: The penultimate of the ...
... took it out and showed it to someone who revealed it to be gilt, not really gold. Privately, he felt resentful that the ancients had deceived him. Not long after this, a former classmate of his father, who served as a supervisory ...