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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... ........................................................ 825 175. The Wine Worm ........................................... 836 176. The Wooden Beauty ..................................... 838 177. Third Sister Feng ......
... wine. If intertextuality is a sort of synthesis between elements recognized in some preexisting, external text, and ... wine.” The “friend” descriptor makes Pu sound sympathetic, but the narrative tells how Qiu was so desperate for wine ...
... wine in “The Mountain God” (dalijiangjun) by raucous fellow travelers, for example, but when the god of the mountain approaches the group in human form, the “travelers” revert to their normal state, and Li learns to his consternation ...
... wine to excess, so his relatives generally avoided him. Occasionally, he went to visit his uncle's family. Miao had a comic personality and was good at telling jokes, so when guests in his uncle's home began chatting with him, they were ...
... Wine drove you crazy, you good-for-nothing! The sun's about to set, everyone's leaving to find a place to sleep and something to eat, but where will you go?” Miao trembled and replied, “I still don't know what's happening, I can't tell ...