Strange Tales from Liaozhai - Vol. 3The 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 third of 6 volumes. |
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... began chatting with him, they were quite amused, and they all ended up carousing together. But Miao became drunk and started behaving irrationally, cursing the guests quite uncongenially. Then the guests became angry and started making ...
... began to reckon to himself: Since it was a bagong scholar quarreling with someone, perhaps my crime won't be considered very serious. Suddenly in the hall a clerk delivered the announcement that the cases of those being sued would be ...
Pu Songling. When Miao saw him, he suddenly began to understand with even greater fear and sorrow that he, too, had died, so he turned to his uncle and tearfully cried, “Uncle, save me!” Jia looked at the black-capped man and said, “Your ...
... began breathing faintly, like rustling silk. That same day he revived, heavily vomiting out several dou of a black fluid with an odor like nothing they'd ever smelled before. When he was finished vomiting, his underclothes and mattress ...
... began to rain; two military officers, who had received orders to inspect the coastal defenses, had been forced to leave the road and seek shelter from the rain at the hut. When they saw a flock of crows gathered on top of it, eventually ...